From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM is Absolutely Down For The Count Date: 23 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Top 25 Corporate Pension Plans Alone Are Underfunded By Over $225
Billion
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-22/top-25-underfunded-corporate-pension-plans-are-225bn-underwater
Per the table below, S&P 500 corporate pensions went from being fully
funded in 2007, in aggregate, to $375BN underfunded in just 8 years.
The primary problem, of course, is the Fed's low interest rate
policies which are crushing both sides of the pension equation.
Pension assets have basically stagnated since 2007, up less than 10%,
as pensions struggle to "find yield."
... snip ...
It quickly gets more complicated. 1999 I'm asked to help prevent the
coming economic mess. Securitized mortgages had been used during the
S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (poster child was office
bldgs in Dallas/Ft.Worth area that turned out to be empty lots).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
I'm to improve the integrity of mortgage supporting documents as
countermeasure. They then find that they can pay the rating agencies
for triple-A rating when both the sellers and rating agencies know
they aren't worth triple-A (from testimony in Oct2008 congressional
hearings). Triple-A trumps supporting documents enabling no-doc liar
loans (with no documentation there no longer is issue of documentation
integrity). Triple-A also enables selling to institutions restricted
to only dealing in "safe" investments (like large public & private
pension funds, claims accounts for 30% loss) and largely responsible
for doing over $27T from 2001-2008. posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
End of 2008, just the four largest Too Big To Fail are holding $5.2T
in offbook toxic assets. TARP is justified for buying these toxic
assets, but with only $700B appropriated, it wouldn't make a dent in
the problem ... and TARP is used for other purposes (which may have
been the objective all along). Federal Reserve fights a long
protracted legal battle to prevent public discloser of what it is
doing behind the scenes. When it looses the battle, the chairman holds
a press conference and says that he expected the TBTF to use the ZIRP
funds to help mainstreet, but when they didn't, he had no way to force
them (but that didn't stop the ZIRP funds). Note that the chairman had
been chosen in part because having been a depression scholar. However
the FED had tried something similar during the depression with the
same results, so the chairman should have had no expectations of
anything different this time. The FED is buying TBTF offbook toxic
assets at 98cents on the dollar (which had been selling in Aug2008 at
22cents on the dollar) and providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds
(which TBTF are using to buy treasuries and making $300B/annum on the
spread). Because TBTF are getting tens of trillions in ZIRP funds,
they have no incentive to pay interest to attract deposits (which is
major pt of article on underfunded pension). posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
Other trivia: Jan2009 I'm asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s
senate hearings into '29 crash, resulted in criminal convictions and
Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal HREFs and URLs between what
happened this time and what happened then (comments that new congress
might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile and then
get a call saying it won't be needed after all (reference to enormous
mountains of wallstreet money totally burying capital hill). posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
From the law of unintended consequences, so far the largest fines on TBTF (for the economic mess) are for the robo-signing mills fabricating documents (for the no-documentation liar loans). Disclaimer: I was tangentially involved in MERS (trying to make mortgage documents electronic). The Mortgage Bankers Association had sponsored a meeting at their hdqtrs in Wash Dc for X9 Financial Standards group on electronic documents. As an aside, CBS 60mins did a segment on the organization when they were having lots of TV spots telling people to not walk away from their underwater mortgages ... and found that they had walked away from their mortgage on their new hdqtrs bldg (across the park from the World Bank and IMF).
Public Education
http://famguardian.org/Subjects/Politics/thomasjefferson/jeff1350.htm
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but
the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not
to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by
education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional
power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:278
... snip ...
I was blamed for online computer communication (precursor to social
media) on the internal network (larger than the arpanet/internet from
just about the 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 communication (and the internal network),
5of6 wanted to fire me. From IBMJARGON:
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 ...
past posts.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Frieden calculator Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:32:06 -0700scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
one of the problems with block mode terminals was sort of psuedo half-duplex .... the system could write to the screen and if you were typing ... it would lockup the keyboard ... and then human would have to interrupt and hit reset to recover and continue typing. one of the reasons that they described them as *NOT* for interactive ... but for data entry.
it was possible to hack 3272/3277 ... unplug the keyboard from the display head, plug in a FIFO character box into the display head and plug in the keyboard into the FIFO box ... which would hold any typed characters if the screen was being written and system wasn't ready to accept characters. This hack disappeared in transition to 3274/3278 when they moved a lot of the electronics out of the display back into the (shared 3274) controller (which also significantly increased the protocol chatter over the 3274<->3278 coax cable) to reduce terminal manufacturing costs. 3272/3277 had .086 sec hardware response, 3274/3278 had .3 to .5+ sec hardware response (added to system response, giving response seen by human).
The significant increase in coax protocol chatter also shows up later with IBM/PC 3270 emulation .... 3277 adapter card had 3 times the upload/download speed of 3278 adapter card.
some recent posts on 3272 and 3274
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#41 System Response
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#23 Three Reasons the Mainframe is in Trouble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#106 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#38 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#15 Dilbert ... oh, you must work for IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#8 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#42 Old Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#104 Is it a lost cause?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM DASD RAS discussion Date: 23 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebook3380 reference
posts getting to play disk engineer in bldgs. 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
referenced they roped me in to taking part in conference calls with
POK channel engineers ... because so many senior people from DASD
development (that were familiar with channel operation) had
departed. One of the departed people (with Shugart for Memorex) was
Lee who had worked with Shugart on 2321 datacell development (among
other things).
http://ethw.org/Creating_Magnetic_Disk_Storage_at_IBM
Lee departs Memorex with Britton and forms Britton-Lee which produced DBMS DASD subsystems and had Epstein (from Berkeley) as CTO. They sold a lot of boxes into the government market (possibly connected to CP67 and then VM370 systems). Epstein then leaves for short stint at Teradata ... and Britton & Lee were attempting to recruit people from San Jose to backfill Epstein with meetings after work across the street from plant site. Person that did go, tried to get me to go with him. Epstein then went on to form SYBASE (at one point SYBASE licenses their RDBMS to Microsoft for what becomes SQL Server).
Fujitsu story is probably Eagle ... old post references an 88 SIGMOD
paper from the Berkeley RAID people comparing SLED to 3380 and Eagle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#30
And for something different ... post with old 1987 email about person
in IBM responsible for IBM 801/RISC (and many other things) has idea
for read/write 16 tracks in parallel and wants me to go with him to
top executives to present idea:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#30
problem is that would be data transfer of 48mbytes/sec ... and mainframe I/O channels were only running 3mbytes/sec. Not long after the referenced email, I would be asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they had, which quickly becomes the fibre channel standard ... initially running at 1gbit/second concurrent in both directions (easily handling more than 100mbytes/sec, over 200mbytes/sec aggregate) ... again not possible with IBM mainframe.
Disclaimer: 1980, STL is bursting at the seams and they are moving 300
people from the IMS group to offsite bldg with remote access back into
the STL datacenter. The people had tried remote 3270 but find the
human factors horrible, especially compared to channel attached 3270
response they were use to. I get roped into doing channel extension
support ... so they can have local channel attached 3270 (and other
channel attached controllers) at remote site (some slight of hand with
downloading channel programs to channel emulator at remote site went a
long way to masking the protocol latency chatter so people at remote
site didn't notice the difference).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
The hardware vendor then tries to get IBM let them ship my software support to customers. There is a group that is playing with some serial stuff in POK and they object (because they are concerned if it is in the market, it would make it more difficult for them to release their stuff). They finally get their stuff released a decade later (when it is obsolete) as ESCON with the ES/9000.
Then some POK engineers become involved in fibre channel standard and
defined a protocol layer that drastically reduces the native
throughput ... that is eventually released as FICON. A few years ago,
there is a TCW enhancement to FICON protocol that partially does what
I had done in 1980 for the channel extension work and was included in
the original 1988 standards work for fibre channel standard.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:04:07 -0700hancock4 writes:
there are more recent articles that US now has the highest incarceration
rate in the world, "war on drugs" producing huge number of non-violent
offenders for workers in the "for-profit" prison systems ... recent news
is that FEDs are pulling all federal inmates out of "for-profit"
prisons. past posts mentioning US "for-profit" prison system.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#82 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#10 Royal Pardon For Turing
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#4 Decimal point character and billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#70 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#39 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#89 Qbasic
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:16:57 -0700re:
On private federal prisons, a victory for independent journalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/on-private-federal-prisons-a-victory-for-independent-journalism/2016/08/23/ef0e43b2-688e-11e6-99bf-f0cf3a6449a6_story.html
Federal private prisons are a small part of the prison-industrial
complex, because most private prisons are at the state and local
level. But the Justice Department's announcement may mark the beginning
of the end of what has been a miserable failure of privatization. The
stock prices of the two leading private prison companies -- the
Corrections Corporation of America and the Geo Group -- cratered on the
news.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: More IBM DASD RAS discussion Date: 23 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
In the recent DASD thread, I mention doing channel extension support
... and POK block vendor from being able to ship it to customers
... however, the vendor then recreated my support from scratch. One of
the things I had done ... is if I my error retries weren't successful
... then I would simulate a channel check CSW stored error interrupt.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
Role forward to 3090 ... 3090s had been in customer accounts for a year and the 3090 product administrator contacts me. The 3090 channels had been designed to have no more than 3-5 total channel checks across all customers in a year period ... but EREP had recorded 15 ... and IBM had determined that the extra ten were due to the simulator CC from customer installed channel extensions. The issue was critical since there was an industry operation that collected customer EREP information, anonymized it and reported it in various ways .... including comparing IBM processors to various vendor clone processors (and the extra ten errors ... total across all customer installed 3090s for a year ... were making 3090 look bad). I did some amount of research and determined reflecting IFCC (instead of CC) would result in effectively same operating system software error recovery (and get 3090 channels off the hot seat).
A couple years before Jim Gray disappeared ... Jim and I were keynote speakers at a NASA dependable computing conference ... and I told the 3090 story and asked how many system vendors collected all error statistics for all customers and publicly reported them.
Note one of the transitions to from (real) CKD to FBA ... was
fixed-block records with predictable error correcting information. CKD
DASD from 60s had made some trade-offs between outboard processing and
use of channel resources. By the mid-70s that trade-off had inverted
... but MVS was tightly tied to CKD features and unable to support FBA
(I offered provide fully functional and tested MVS FBA support and was
rejected). As a result, san jose eventually had to come out with 3375
(which was CKD emulation running on 3370 FBA). 3380 had (small) fixed
block sizes ... which can be seen in records/track calculations where
it is necessary to round record size up to multiples of the fixed
record size. Real CKD haven't been manufactured for decades ... being
simulated on industry standard FBA disks for z/OS. Industry standard
has been moving from 512-byte fixed block size to 4096-byte fixed
block size ... in part because of more efficient error correcting.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
Early 90s, I had coined the terms disaster survivability and
geographic survivability when out marketing our HA/CMP product. I
was then asked to write a section for the corporate strategic
continuous availability document. It got pulled when both Rochester
(AS/400) and POK (mainframe) complained that they couldn't meet the
requirements.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: More IBM DASD RAS discussion Date: 23 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
When I first transferred to SJR, they let me wander the San Jose plant
site. Bldg14 engineering had a number of 370 processors doing
pre-scheduled (7x24) stand-alone engineering testing. At one point
they had tried running the processors with MVS ... but MVS had 15min
MTBF in that environment. I offered to rewrite the I/O supervisor so
it was bullet-proof and never fail ... enabling on-demand concurrent
testing significantly improving productivity. Unfortunately I wrote an
internal-only report and happen to make reference to the MVS 15min
MTBF ... bringing the wrath of the POK MVS group down on my head. It
turns out that they couldn't get me terminated ... but they made some
other things unpleasant. posts mentioning getting to play disk
engineer in bldg 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: More IBM DASD RAS discussion Date: 23 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
IBM had FE service paradigm that service could do boot strap process starting with scoping for failed component. With 3081 and TCMs ... it was no longer possible to scope for failed component ... so service processor was introduced with service processor having extensive probes into TCMs for diagnostics. The service processor was primitive UC that required an enormous amount of roll-you-own just to do the simplest thing.
The decision for 3090 was to go with 4331 service processor running a customized version of VM370 release6 ... and I got sucked into that several times. Eventually it was decided to replace the 4331 with a pair of (redundant) 4361s as the "3092" service processor. Even when the 3090 customer was pure MVS and CKD DASD only ... 3090 order still required two 3370 FBA disks (for the two "3092", 4361 VM370 systems).
Not long after leaving IBM, we were brought in as consultants to small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, the startup had invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
I was mainly responsible for the server to payment gateway operation ... with an "SSL" connection over the internet to the payment gateway. The initial prototype test had straight forward server application code to payment gateway at operation where they had requirement for 1st level problem determination of 5minutes ... but the (pilot) 1st trouble call was closed as NTF after 3hrs. What I then had to do to make mission critical service out of straightline application ... was ten times more than the initial application.
past posts mentioning mission critical service required
4-10 effort of straight line application:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#62 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#48 Automating secure transactions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#49 "Perfect" or "Provable" security both crypto and non-crypto?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#20 The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#37 Is computer history taught now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#78 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#77 PSI MIPS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#23 Outsourcing loosing steam?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#54 Industry Standard Time To Analyze A Line Of Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#41 IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#50 fraying infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#35 Builders V. Breakers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#0 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#27 PDCA vs. OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#67 Somewhat off-topic: comp-arch.net cloned, possibly hacked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#44 Faster, Better, Cheaper: Why Not Pick All Three?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#13 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#25 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#86 Economic Failures of HTTPS Encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#146 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#10 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#16 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#20 Living With Fog and Friction: The Fallacy of Information Superiority
past posts mentioning 3092 service processor:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#37 IBM 3614 and 3624 ATM's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#10 Different Implementations of VLIW
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#56 TOPS-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#22 Evil weather
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#50 Mainframe Hall of Fame: 17 New Members Added
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#32 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#34 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#38 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#71 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#62 3090 ... announce 12Feb85
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#31 TCP/IP Available on MVS When?
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/2011f.html#42 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/2011h.html#68 IBM Mainframe (1980's) on You tube
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#13 Last card reader?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#21 Supervisory Processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#58 Why can't the track format be changed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#23 M68k add to memory is not a mistake any more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#38 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#53 Image if someone built a general-menu-system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#76 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#23 VM Workshop 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#83 How smart do you need to be to be really good with Assembler?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#0 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#8 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#68 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#25 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#30 April 1st RFCs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#33 What Makes code storage management so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#27 Getting at the original command name/line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#32 Getting at the original command name/line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#91 rebuild 1403 printer chain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#30 GUI vs 3270 Re: MVS Quick Reference, was: LookAT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#31 Hardware failures (was Re: Scary Sysprogs ...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#14 23Jun1969 Unbundling Announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#21 Complete 360 and 370 systems found
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#34 Special characters for Passwords
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#43 April 1 RFC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#105 DOS descendant still lives was Re: slight reprieve on the z
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM email Date: 24 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookPROFS group picked up a lot of internal applications, including a early source version of VMSG for the email client. When VMSG author attempted to offer the PROFS group a much improved version, they attempted to get him terminated (having taken credit for everything in PROFS). They whole thing quieted down when the VMSG showed that every PROFS mail in the world had his initials in non-displayed field (VMSG author then limited source distribution to me and one other person). Old email that VMSG author started adding ITPS support after YKT did a gateway between the internal network and ITPS.
3270 terminal orders were part of fall plan and required VP sign-off. We did business justification that monthly amortized cost of 3270 terminal was less than business phone on desk (which was done as matter of course). Then there was period when there was rapidly spreading rumor that some senior execs were using email ... and all of a sudden nearly the entire internal yearly order of 3270s disappeared onto middle management desks. They didn't actually used them (left for their assistance) ... but was status symbol that turned on in the morning and spent all day burning the vm370 logo onto the screen (or in some rare cases they had assistant log it on, and spent the day burning the PROFS logo into the screen). This status symbol effect continued for many generations ... middle management preempting PS2/486 with large screens for their desk status symbol (screensavers possibly keeping its lack of actual use obfuscated).
Before that we had extensive discussions at after work fridays about magic bullet to get executives using computers (so they understood a little about the company). At one point Jim Gray and I decided on doing the internal online telephone books ... with a qualifier ... neither of us would spend more than 40hrs designing, implementing software, collecting and formating data and deploying the whole infrastructure (somebody later told us that corporate had once looked at the possibility and projected a department of 20people with $5m budget).
One of my hobbies was providing enhanced production operating systems for internal datacenters ... including the internal online sales&marketing support HONE system from just about the beginning. When EMEA hdqtrs moved from US to Paris ... involved the first HONE clone outside the US ... and I was asked to go over for the install. One of the hardest problems was figuring out how to access my email back in the states.
some internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internal
some HONE posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
from long ago and far away:
********************** IBM Internal Use Only ************************
• :nick.REMAIL
• :sec.IBM Internal Use Only
• :title.REMAIL - trivial exec for VM/822 mail forwarding
• :version.1
• :date.87/09/28
• :scp.VM/SP.3 ONWARDS
• :oname.Lynn Wheeler
• :onode.AUSVMC
• :ouser.WHEELER
• :aname.Lynn Wheeler
• :anode.AUSVMC
• :auser.WHEELER
• :lang.REXX
• :abs.REMAIL will process all spooled reader mail, convert it to
• 822 mail format and forward it to the specified TCP/SMTP mail
• gateway for sending to the specified tcp/ip node. If the VM/TCP/IP
• SMTP mail gateway is installed, REMAIL can be used to forward
• all VM mail to your RT.
• :kwd.MAIL TCP/IP SMTP 822
• :sw.
• :doc.REMAIL MEMO
• :support.N
********************************************************************* **
*
&1 &2 REMAIL EXEC * Process spool reader files
&1 &2 REMAIL XEDIT * Reformat cms mail to 822 format
*
&1 &2 DISCRDR EXEC * Toy exec that activates REMAIL
&1 &2 XROSSCAL EXEC * Toy exec for generating PROFS cal. req.
• *
&1 &2 REMAIL MEMO * Brief documentation
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM email Date: 25 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Some of the internal network technology was used in the corporate
sponsored univ. network BITNET (which was also larger than
arpanet/internet for some time)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
In europe, it was referred to as EARN ... old email from person
responsible for EARN asking about online applications.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320
I was blamed for online computer communication (precursor to social
media) on the internal network (larger than the arpanet/internet from
just about the 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 communication (and the internal network),
5of6 wanted to fire me. From IBMJARGON:
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 ...
In the wake of "Tandem Memos" there were lots of corporate efforts for
online computer communication, including developing officially
sanctioned discussion groups and tools. For the corporate sponsored
university network, "LISTSERV" mailing list discussion group software
was developed in Paris in the 80s.
http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv-history.asp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Boyd OODA-loop Innovation Date: 25 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookearlier piece
Elements of Military Art and Science by H. W. Halleck, 1846
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16170
log5019-20:
A rapid coup d'oeil prompt decision, active movements, are
as indispensable as sound judgment; for the general must see, and
decide, and act, all in the same instant.
... snip ...
however, Boyd would refer to all of OODA-loop going on concurrently ... and need to constantly observe from every possible facet (as countermeasure to orientation bias).
Truly revolution ideas are difficult to get across to audience ... it pretty nearly has to within the framework and words that the audience is familiar with. I did find that Boyd could be tiring one-on-one alone ... where he might have two (or more) different threads concurrently ... and before commenting had to figure out which thread it was ... almost like a game. I never really figured out whether there was a meta objective with the multiple threads. I've known a couple other people that liked to do something similar.
aka OODA-loop which was relatively minor step to concurrent simultaneously ... still has been frequently interpreted as sequentially, step-by-step. Dataprocessing multi-core chips has had something similar ... there is folklore from decade ago, Gates telling Intel that they had to stop making multi-core chips and go back to making increasingly faster single core chips (with purely sequential processing). Intel tells Gates it wasn't going to happen ... and Gates saying that multi-core is too hard ... since then the holy grail has been software programming language that greatly simplifies the multi-core concurrent programming model for the majority of the people in the world
Boyd & OODA-loop posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Frieden calculator Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:33:54 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery7.html
Just about the only terminal type the Data Concentrator didn't deal with
was the IBM 1050 Data Terminal shown below circa 1970. This one had a
keyboard, printer and punched card reader. It used the six-bit Binary
Coded Decimal (BCD) code at 134.5 bps. A bunch of these shared the same
telephone line with each one selected by a special prefix code. It had
no internal memory, so the operator had to retype a line of data if the
checksum failed.
... snip ...
about the same time as PDP-8 front end for MTS on 360/67, I was working
on Interdata/3 front end for CP67 on 360/67. Interdata markets it as
controller clone ... at univ. it involves into Interdata/4 for the
channel interface with cluster of Interdata/3s dedicated to port/line
interfaces.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Why a Single-Payer Health Care System is Inevitable Date: 26 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookWhy a Single-Payer Health Care System is Inevitable
There was enormous uptic in outsourcing to beltway bandits starting
after the start of the century ... and much further uptic in the
rapidly spreading Success of Failure in the for-profit companies
doing work for the government.
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
We effectively consulted for free on the backroom dataprocessing for the 2000 Census (including when they were audited by other agencies ... asked to handle all the questions). After the start of the century we asked about doing something similar for the V.A. and had meeting with the lead congressional staffer for the V.A. ... V.A. was just coming off a billion dollar failed effort and were gearing up for a couple billion dollar restart. What we were suggesting was one of the most threatening things to the beltway bandits ... and they figured out a way to head it off. Congress was cutting a lot of funding for direct V.A. operations so they could appropriate it for their buddies in for-profit companies. A lot of press about the millions of dollars in V.A. problems is just misdirection away from the billions of dollars failed efforts which is a enormously bigger problem
Success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Bullying Date: 27 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookfor a little topic drift, children's book on bullying about former co-worker at the science center
recently rekindled discussion on the web with
Five myths about the Web
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-internet/2016/08/19/8d33ddf4-656f-11e6-8b27-bb8ba39497a2_story.html
At 25, the World Wide Web Is Still a Long Way From Reality
http://www.wired.com/2016/08/25-world-wide-web-still-long-way-reality/
Happy 25th birthday to the World Wide Web
http://www.cnet.com/news/happy-25th-birthday-to-the-world-wide-web/
part of thread archived here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#124
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: New words, language, metaphor Date: 27 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookand word/language/metaphor cross-over from OODA-loop discussion
earlier piece
Elements of Military Art and Science by H. W. Halleck, 1846
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16170
log5019-20: A rapid coup d'oeil prompt decision, active movements, are as indispensable as sound judgment; for the general must see, and decide, and act, all in the same instant.
however, Boyd would refer to all of OODA-loop going on concurrently ... and need to constantly observe from every possible facet (as countermeasure to orientation bias).
Truly revolution ideas are difficult to get across to audience ... it pretty nearly has to within the framework and words that the audience is familiar with. I did find that Boyd could be tiring one-on-one alone ... where he might have two (or more) different threads concurrently ... and before commenting had to figure out which thread it was ... almost like a game. I never really figured out whether there was a meta objective with the multiple threads. I've known a couple other people that liked to do something similar.
aka OODA-loop which was relatively minor step to concurrent simultaneously ... has still has been frequently interpreted as sequentially, step-by-step. Dataprocessing multi-core chips has had something similar ... there is folklore from decade ago, Gates telling Intel that they had to stop making multi-core chips and go back to making increasingly faster single core chips (with purely sequential processing). Intel tells Gates it wasn't going to happen ... and Gates saying that multi-core is too hard ... since then the holy grail has been software programming language that greatly simplifies the multi-core concurrent programming model for the majority of the people in the world
...
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
and to continue the dataprocessing theme. long ago and far away, we were brought into a small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I had complete authority over the server to payment gateway (but could only make recommendations on the client/server part, some of which were almost immediately violated that account for some number of exploits that continue to this day). They had already done a straight line well testing and debugged application to implement the server to payment gateway operation. I then specified what was needed to do to turn an application into a (business critical) service ... which required ten times more effort (than the original straight-line application).
In this time-frame object-oriented operating systems were all the rage (apple doing pink, sun doing spring, etc). Apple spins off a bunch of their work as Taligent ... not full-blown operating system but a platform for programming environment (with lots of feature/functions already provided to simplify writing applications). We then had a one week "JAD" with Taligent to go through what was needed in their environment to support implementing business critical applications (as opposed to toy graphical demos). The initial conclusion called for rewrite of 1/3rd of their existing code and 1/3rd brand new code (with new features/concepts ... analogous to new programming metaphors).
We were then involved in a project where treasury was outsourcing
electronic tax payments (handles about 95% of federal budget) that
required processes following MIL-STD-498 and DOD-STD-2167A ... which
we noticed increased the implementation effort by a factor of ten
times (comapred to industry standard processes). We then had several
meetings with interested parties to go over program development
facilities that would support meeting 2167A requirements but only
require 2-3 times standard industry efforts (rather than ten
times). An old reference, gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20060831110450/http://www.software.org/quagmire/
past posts mentioning Taligent &/or quagmire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#10 Taligent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#46 Where are they now : Taligent and Pink
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#48 Where are they now : Taligent and Pink
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#55 Computer security: The Future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#36 Proper ISA lifespan?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#93 Buffer overflow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#59 Computers in Science Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#69 Computers in Science Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#70 Computers in Science Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#76 Difference between Unix and Linux?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#60 The next big things that weren't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#45 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#28 A Speculative question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#16 Dealing with complexity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#53 defination of terms: "Application Server" vs. "Transaction Server"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#64 Systems software versus applications software definitions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#1 Systems software versus applications software definitions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#46 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#40 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#52 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#38 Where should the type information be: in tags and descriptors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#42 Development as Configuration
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#17 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#37 The new High Assurance SSL Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#20 The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#13 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#69 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#1 The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#36 Future of System/360 architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#46 Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#22 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#26 comp.arch has made itself a sitting duck for spam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#32 comp.arch has made itself a sitting duck for spam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#44 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#64 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#9 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#15 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#17 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#37 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#53 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#59 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#61 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#101 Perspectives: Looped back in
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#30 Before Disruption...Thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#94 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#2 Quagmire on the Potomac
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#68 Boyd's cycle: the path to guaranteed success + 6 big companies as evidence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#59 Teletypewriter Model 33
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/2013o.html#63 What Makes a Tax System 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/2014f.html#13 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How Veterans Are Losing the War at Home Date: 27 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookHow Veterans Are Losing the War at Home
One of the things last decade was congress appropriated an extra trilllion-plus dollars for the two wars (in part because of the significant amounts that leak out to for-profit companies and their lobbying) ... but didn't bother to appropriate a corresponding increase for the VA to handle those returning home (VA isn't allowed to lobby congress).
related
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#12 Why a Single-Payer Health Care System is Inevitable
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The EpiPen Scandal Is Worse Than You Think: What You're Not Being Told Date: 27 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookThe EpiPen Scandal Is Worse Than You Think: What You're Not Being Told
The epitome of all this is Medicare Part-d ... first major bill passed after congress allowed fiscal responsibility act (spending could *NOT* exceed tax revenue) to expire in 2002. CBS 60mins does expose of the 18 republican congressmen and staffers responsible for getting it passed. Just before the final vote they add a single sentence and prevent CBO from distributing report on the change. Six months after the bill passes, 60mins find that all 18 have resigned and are on drug industry payroll.
The US Comptroller General characterizes part-D as coming to be a long term $40T item, totally swamping all other budget items. By 2005, the US Comptroller General is including in speeches that nobody in congress is capable of middle school arithmetic (for how badly they are savaging the budget with part-D and lots of other huge spending increases as well and tax revenue cuts ... the first time taxes have been cut to not pay for two wars).
Medicare Part-D
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
Fiscal Responsibility Act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
Comptroller General
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: UBS whistleblower exposes 'political prostitution' all the way up to President Obama Date: 27 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookUBS whistleblower exposes 'political prostitution' all the way up to President Obama
2009, IRS press refers to 52,000 wealthy Americans that owe $400B in illegal tax evasion (over the previous decade). Then in spring 2011, the house votes to cut the budget for the IRS department responsible for recovering that $400B. Since then there has been little or nothing on recovering the $400B.
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Bullying Date: 27 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Putting "Anti-Intellectualism" in Context: Intellectualism, Misology, and the Army
http://www.thestrategybridge.com/the-bridge/2014/1/20/putting-anti-intellectualism-in-context-intellectualism-misology-and-the-army
Current military reform somewhat centered around German
"Auftragstaktik" roughly translated "mission command" ... one of the
most active proponents sometimes gets asked to brief top Pentagon, but
they appear to never pay more than lip service on military
reform. There was an attempt to get him elected the new "yoda", when
the first director of the Office of Net Assessment announced he was
retiring in 2015 after 42years in the job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Marshall_(foreign_policy_strategist)
A big issue with military reform is that the problems are so pervasive
... that it is necessary to start with personnel managment and work
from there to make any dent
http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/military-people-and-ideas/2016/developing-for-mission-command-the-missing-link.html
In 2010, the Defense Science Board report on the personnel system
concluded that the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act (DOPMA)
[with "up or out" as its centerpiece] and other policies and
regulations "have the effect today of inhibiting the Department's
flexibility and adaptability."[21]
... snip ...
The Language of Mission Command and the Necessity of an Historical Approach
http://www.thestrategybridge.com/the-bridge/2016/6/4/the-language-of-mission-command-and-the-necessity-of-an-historical-approach
Mission command--imperfectly translated from its German origin of
Auftragstaktik--is widely regarded as the most superior command
philosophy in military history. Its great advantages are unrivaled
speed, utmost flexibility, authenticity and genuine leadership. All
these are battle-winning traits.
... snip ...
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: And it's gone --The true cost of interruptions Date: 27 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookAnd it's gone --The true cost of interruptions
from "real programmers don't write specs":
Real Programmers never work 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around
at 9am, it's because they were up all night.
... so they can work w/o interruptions.
past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#31 High Level Language Systems was Re: computer books/authors (Re: FA:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#39 Why Use *-* ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#16 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#23 Scary Sysprogs and educating those 'kids'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#24 Scary Sysprogs and educating those 'kids'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#72 Five Outdated Leadership Ideas That Need To Die
We periodically have discussions about programmers being literate in a
programming language ... same as "literate" in a natural language
... when think & dream in the language (rather than having to
translate everything). past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#9 Where did the hacker ethic go?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#26 HELP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#64 Programming in School (was: Re: Common uses...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#37 Would the value of knowledge and information be transferred or shared accurately across the different culture??????
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#26 Losing colonies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#48 Secure design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#49 Secure design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#44 First assembly language encounters--how to get started?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#50 64 gig memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#39 Wrapping up the FBEMBA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#24 Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#39 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#31 An upbeat story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#39 Zen and Connaturality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#74 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#51 Thinking in a Foreign Language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#83 How smart do you need to be to be really good with Assembler?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#8 Initial ideas (orientation) constrain creativity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#56 Computer Architecture Manuals - tools for writing and maintaining- state of the art?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#48 Is coding the new literacy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#65 Is coding the new literacy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#8 What Does School Really Teach Children
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Why a Single-Payer Health Care System is Inevitable Date: 28 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
.. example .. folklore is that wallstreet paid congress $250M for
GLBA, about evenly divided between the two parties, the original bill
passed purely along party lines and the president was going to veto
it, they then go back and tack on some other stuff and eventually
passes with a (veto-proof) 90-8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act
Original rhetoric on the floor of congress regarding purpose of GLBA was that if you already had a banking charter, you got to keep it, but if you didn't have a banking charter, you couldn't get one (keep new competition out of banking with more efficient technology that could significantly reduce profit margins). GLBA is now better known for one of the additions, repeal of Glass-Steagall ... enabling too big to fail (too big to prosecute and too big to jail).
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Another problem is that original funding just to the
military-industrial-complex for the two wars ... but didn't bother to
fund VA. I was talking to mental health professional within the past
couple years and they said that public outcry over VA on mental health
... and congress did find some more funds. VA then had offers out to
nearly every mental health professional in the country ... but it
would take at least six years to grow the new mental health
professionals. In the mean time, the drug industry was pushing that
they heavily medicate the patients ... many are getting drugs that are
almost impossible to get off of and they will be on for the rest of
their life.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: US and UK have staged coups before Date: 28 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookThe World Crisis, Vol. 1, Churchill explains the mess in middle east started with move from 13.5in to 15in guns (which requires moving from coal to oil) loc2012-14:
including Iranian coup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt,_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
... and Schwarzkoph (senior) training of the secret police to help keep Shah in power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK
recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#78 The World Crisis, Vol. 1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#85 The World Crisis, Vol. 1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#30 The World Crisis, Vol. 1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#66 Dinosaurisation of we oldies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#70 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#72 Dinosaurisation of we oldies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#75 Dinosaurisation of we oldies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#84 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#90 Google and Facebook put their fierce rivalry aside to save money in this key area
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: US and UK have staged coups before Date: 28 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Down the street from "Economic Hit Man", 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
For other, president of Harvard (mentioned in the previous refs) was treasury point person for much of this in the 90s. Then when his mentor (and former head of Goldman-Sachs) resigns as SECTREAS (to become what was described at the time the co-CEO of Citi), he becomes SECTREAS.
The president of AMEX was competing to be the next CEO. The looser then leaves and takes his protegee and go to Baltimore and takes over what was described as loan sharking business. They make some number of other acquisitions and eventually acquire Citibank in violation of Glass-Steagall. Greespan gives them an exemption while they lobby Congress for repeal of Glass-Steagall (enabling too big to fail, too big to prosecute and too big to jail). They enlist the SECTREAS to help them, after repeal is added to GLBA, the SECTREAS reasigns to join Citi (Citi is major player in the economic mess last decade). The "protegee" leaves Citi and becomes CEO of one of the other four largest TBTF (end of 2008, just four largest TBTF were carrying $5.2T in offbook toxic assets, making the $700B appropriated for TARP something of farce, Citi is carrying the most of that $5.2T).
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDO:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
posts mentioning "Economic Hitman" &/or "Harvard responsible for
rise of Putin?"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#63 21st Century Management approach?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#71 A question for the readership
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#80 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#111 Matt Taibbi with Xmas Message from the Rich
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#25 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#57 Study Confirms The Government Produces The Buggiest Software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#70 Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#70 The Army and Special Forces: The Fantasy Continues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#81 GBP13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#45 If all of the American earned dollars hidden in off shore accounts were uncovered and taxed do you think we would be able to close the deficit gap?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#60 The IBM mainframe has been the backbone of most of the world's largest IT organizations for more than 48 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#83 Protected: R.I.P. Containment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#2 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#95 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#98 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#7 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#25 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#51 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#63 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#69 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#80 The REAL Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#40 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#62 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#41 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#49 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#37 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#38 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/2014g.html#66 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#11 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
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/2015.html#98 Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#1 do you blame Harvard for Puten
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#2 do you blame Harvard for Putin
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#4 Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#32 Larry Summers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#13 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#79 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#30 Analysis: Root of Tattered US-Russia Ties Date Back Decades
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#44 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#45 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#11 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#14 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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#70 Department of Defense Head Ashton Carter Enlists Silicon Valley to Transform the Military
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#91 Happy Dec-10 Day!!!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#122 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#16 1970--protesters seize computer center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#39 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#73 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#31 Putin holds phone call with Obama, urges better defense cooperation in fight against ISIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#39 Failure as a Way of Life; The logic of lost wars and military-industrial boondoggles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#7 Why was no one prosecuted for contributing to the financial crisis? New documents reveal why
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#69 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#59 How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Frieden calculator Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:03:56 -0700"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> writes:
some past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#16 Keydriven bit permutations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#35 Deny the British empire's crimes? No, we ignore them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#62 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
Then there is ... The World Crisis, Vol. 1, Churchill explains the mess
in middle east started with move from 13.5in to 15in guns (before WW1,
which requires moving from coal to oil) loc2012-14:
From the beginning there appeared a ship carrying ten 15-inch guns, and
therefore at least 600 feet long with room inside her for engines which
would drive her 21 knots and capacity to carry armour which on the
armoured belt, the turrets and the conning tower would reach the
thickness unprecedented in the British Service of 13 inches.
loc2087-89:
To build any large additional number of oil-burning ships meant basing
our naval supremacy upon oil. But oil was not found in appreciable
quantities in our islands. If we required it, we must carry it by sea in
peace or war from distant countries.
loc2151-56:
This led to enormous expense and to tremendous opposition on the Naval
Estimates. Yet it was absolutely impossible to turn back. We could only
fight our way forward, and finally we found our way to the Anglo-Persian
Oil agreement and contract, which for an initial investment of two
millions of public money (subsequently increased to five millions) has
not only secured to the Navy a very substantial proportion of its oil
supply, but has led to the acquisition by the Government of a
controlling share in oil properties and interests which are at present
valued at scores of millions sterling, and also to very considerable
economies, which are still continuing, in the purchase price of
Admiralty oil.
... snip ...
including Iranian coup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt,_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
... and Schwarzkoph (senior) training of the secret police to help keep Shah in power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK
some past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#95 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#70 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#78 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#11 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#39 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#72 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#77 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#80 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#81 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#78 The World Crisis, Vol. 1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#102 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#21 US and UK have staged coups before
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Frieden calculator Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:28:19 -0700maus <mausg@mail.com> writes:
but US helped Britain in 1953 with overthrow of the elected president in Iran when he insisted on examining the Iranian oil contracts with Britain ... and training SAVAK to help keep the Shah in power.
After Iran overthrew the Shah ... US supported Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including supplying WMDs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
more trivia: early 90s, sat. recon analyst notified administration that
Saddam was preparing to invade Kuwait. The administration said Saddam
would do no such thing and proceeded to discredit the analyst. Then the
analyst notifies that Saddam was preparing to invade Saudi Arabia, the
administration now has to choose between Iraq and Saudi Arabia (Bush1 is
president and Cheney is now SECDEF)
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
Very early last decade, the cousin of White House chief of staff (Card)
is dealing with Iraq in the UN and given proof that the WMDs have been
decommissioned ... which is forwarded to Card, Powell and others
... before it can be made public, the cousin is locked up in military
hospital. (Bush2 is president, Cheney is VP, and Rumsfeld is SECDEF
again). The cousin eventually gets out and publishes a book in 2010.
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
NY times series from fall 2014 about finding the decommissioned WMDs
(tracing back to the US) and the information was kept classified for a
decade (corroborates details in cousin's book published 2010)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
aka ... in the 70s, White House chief of staff is Rumsfeld and Cheney
is his assistant. CIA director doesn't agree with "Team B" Russian
miliary analysis justifying huge increase in US military spending.
Rumsfeld replaces him with Bush1 who would agree, then resigns
to become SECDEF (and Cheney replaces him as white house chief of
staff)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
one of the original "Team B" members
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
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
In the middle of the last decade, when the families of 9/11 victims try
to sue Saudi Arabia for responsibility for 9/11, the administration says
they can't sue a gov. That is reversed in 2013 ... some speculation
because of all the fracking has made the US more energy
independent. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#51 U.S. Sidelined as Iraq Becomes Bloodier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#83 NSA surveillance played little role in foiling terror plots, experts say
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#11 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#99 Reducing Army Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#103 Royal Pardon For Turing
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#14 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#89 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#51 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#64 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#27 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#73 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#78 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#54 The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#12 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#43 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#72 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#50 Iraqi WMDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#93 Qbasic
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Samsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 64Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something Date: 30 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookSamsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 64Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something
In 1980, I was roped into doing channel-extension support for the STL
(since renamed silicon valley) LAB. STL was bursting at the seams and
they were moving 300 people from the IMS group to off-site bldg with
connection back into STL datacenter. They had tried "remote 3270" but
found the human factors intolerable. Channel-extension would allow
placing channel-attached 3270s (and other controllers) at offsite
bldg. Part of the support was downloading channel programs to channel
emulator to offset the enormous overhead & latency of channel protocol
chatter. The vendor then tried to get IBM to release it to customers,
but there was group in POK that were playing with some serial stuff
and were afraid that the channel-extension support in the market would
make it more difficult to justify releasing their stuff. Some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
In 1988, I was asked to help LLNL standardize some serial technology
stuff technology they had which quickly becomes fibre-channel standard
(including some of the stuff that I did in 1980). Then in 1990, the
POK stuff is released as ESCON with ES/9000 when it is already
obsolete. Then some POK channel engineers become involved with
fibre-channel standard and define a heavy-weight protocol that
drastically reduces the native throughput ... which is eventually
released as FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
The most recent IBM peak I/O throughput numbers I can find is for z196 where they got 2M IOPS using 104 FICON. At about the same time, there was a fibre-channel announced for E5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS (for single fibre-channel, two such fibre-channel have higher throughput than 104 FICON running over 104 fibre-channel). There has been TCW announced for FICON that is little like what I did in 1980, but it only claims 30% improvement over standard FICON.
The channel-extension was also used for IMS FE service group in Boulder that were moved into office bldg across highway from the datacenter. Optical modems on poles on the edge of the roof, were used for the interconnect. There was issue was that signal might be lost in colorado storms (we did record some transmission errors in a white-out storm where nobody was able to get into work). The real problem was that uneven heating of the bldg sides during the course of a sunny day caused the bldg. sides to expand, leaning the modem poles and loose signal. The poles were repositioned from the sides of the bldgs (that would expand and contract during the course of sunny day).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: British socialism / anti-trust Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:06:48 -0700hancock4 writes:
and wasn't set up for 3rd party attachment (clone controllers) ... which
then prompted FS
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
IBM tried to react by launching a major project called the 'Future System' (FS) in the early 1970's. The idea was to get so far ahead that the competition would never be able to keep up, and to have such a high level of integration that it would be impossible for competitors to follow a compatible niche strategy. However, the project failed because the objectives were too ambitious for the available technology. Many of the ideas that were developed were nevertheless adapted for later generations. Once IBM had acknowledged this failure, it launched its 'box strategy', which called for competitiveness with all the different types of compatible sub-systems. But this proved to be difficult because of IBM's cost structure and its R&D spending, and the strategy only resulted in a partial narrowing of the price gap between IBM and its rivals.
... snip ...
FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
I've mentioned in the past, as undergraduate, trying to get the IBM
telecommunication controller to do something it couldn't quite do
... somewhat spawns the univ. starting a clone controller project,
Interdata/3 programmed to emulate IBM's controller ... but would do what
I wanted to do (Interdata then markets, later expanded to Interdata/4
for the channel interface and cluster of Interdata/3s handling port/line
interfaces, after Perkin/Elemer buys Interdata, continues to be sold
under the P/E logo). Four of us get written up responsible for (some
part of) clone controller business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
There is some folklore that SNA is possibly leftover vestige of FS ... with its highly baroque interface between VTAM and NCP 37x5 terminal controllers
During FS, 370 efforts were being shutdown (FS was completely different
from 360/370), which is credited with giving clone processors a market
foothold. After FS implodes, there is mad rush to get products
back into the 370 pipeline ... and decision to transition
to start charging for kernel software. I had continued doing
360/370 stuff all during the FS period ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
One of my hobbies was providing&supporting enhanced production operating
systems for internal datacenters ... and the mad rush contributes to
releasing some of my stuff to customers ... and the resource management
was selected to be guinea pig for transition to charging for kernel
software ... as separately charged for add-on. some resource management
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
In the 80s, with the charging for all kernel software, there is then the OCO-wars ... "object code only" ... lots of customers were use to having complete source ... and IBM was changing to no longer providing source.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: British socialism / anti-trust Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:11:41 -0700Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:
This account at an annual industry conference in the 40s, they decide to
fund a major propaganda campaign equating capitalism with
christianity. The issue was that corporations had gotten extremely bad
reputation for the depression and for rebuilding Germany's industry and
military during the 20s and 30s ... and they were looking to remake
their image. "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented
Christian America"
https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate-ebook/dp/B00PWX7R56/
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,
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Called-Intrepid-Incredible-Narrative/dp/B00V9QVE5O/
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 ...
John Foster Dulles played major role in rebuilding Germany's economy and
military during 20s&30s, "The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen
Dulles, and Their Secret World War"
https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Foster-Dulles-Allen-Secret-ebook/dp/B00BY5QX1K/
loc865-68:
In mid-1931 a consortium of American banks, eager to safeguard their
investments in Germany, persuaded the German government to accept a loan
of nearly $500 million to prevent default. Foster was their agent. His
ties to the German government tightened after Hitler took power at the
beginning of 1933 and appointed Foster's old friend Hjalmar Schacht as
minister of economics.
loc873-79:
Sullivan & Cromwell floated the first American bonds issued by the giant
German steelmaker and arms manufacturer Krupp A.G., extended
I.G. Farben's global reach, and fought successfully to block Canada's
effort to restrict the export of steel to German arms makers.
loc905-7:
Foster was stunned by his brother's suggestion that Sullivan & Cromwell
quit Germany. Many of his clients with interests there, including not
just banks but corporations like Standard Oil and General Electric,
wished Sullivan & Cromwell to remain active regardless of political
conditions.
loc938-40:
At least one other senior partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, Eustace
Seligman, was equally disturbed. In October 1939, six weeks after the
Nazi invasion of Poland, he took the extraordinary step of sending
Foster a formal memorandum disavowing what his old friend was saying
about Nazism
... snip ...
trivia: from the law of unintended consequences, when the 1943 US Strategic Bombing Program needed locations of German industrial and military targets, they got the German target location information from wallstreet. However, from 5-6 miles high, they had trouble actually hitting targets. Later McNamara was LaMay's staff planning fire bombing of German cities (lot harder to miss a whole city) and later Japanese cities. McNamara leaves for the auto industry after the war, but returns as SECDEF for Vietnam where Laos becomes the most bombed country in the world (more tonnage than Germany & Japan combined).
other trivia: US Strategic Bombing Program insisted that all the money go to building strategic bombers (1/3rd of US WW2 budget was for strategic bombers), that long range fighters weren't required. The British tried to explain that the Germans learned that lesson the hard way in the air battle of Britain, but the US insisted that they also learn it the hard way.
even more trivia: I was recently talking to former Navy aviator from Vietnam era about Midway. History has no B17 bombs hit anything (there is B17 at the museum). He said his squadron accounted for two of the carriers at Midway ... and B17s may have never hit any enemy target in the Pacific.
past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#11 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
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#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#77 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#22 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#32 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#63 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#119 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#120 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/2016b.html#49 Corporate malfeasance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#64 Isolationism and War Profiteering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#75 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#77 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#78 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#91 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#11 Study: Cost of U.S. Regulations Larger Than Germany's Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#49 Fateful Choices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#88 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Revival of pessimistic locking Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:10:33 -0700already5chosen writes:
During the 70s and 80s ... there was increasing use of CAS by multithreaded applications ... like large DBMS implementations ... and also started to see it added to other processor architectures.
801/RISC started out claiming single processor only and no instructions
would take more than single cycle ... and totally rejected CAS
implementation. However, with porting of RDBMS to RS/6000 power ... the
lack of CAS significantly hurt throughput. As a temporary stop-gap a CAS
simulation was added to the supervisor call, first-level-interrupt
handler ... that would simulate CAS (while disabled for interrupts and
immediately return/resume, RS/6000 POWER was single processor so didn't
have to consider serializing other processors). Later power/pc with
multiprocessor support and more (multi-threaded) business applications,
CAS become increasingly critical.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
trivia ... some place from long ago and far away ... I have the CAS simulation code from the RS/6000 FLIH.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Samsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 64Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something Date: 31 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
late 80s, a senior disk engineer got talk scheduled at internal annual
world-wide communication group conference supposedly on 3174
performance ... but open 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
strategic responsibility for everything that crossed the datacenter
walls and were fiercely fighting off client/server and distributed
computing, trying to preserve their (emulated) dumb terminal paradigm
and install base. The disk division was seeing data fleeing the data
center to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in
disk sales. The disk division had come up with several solutions to
address the problem but they were constantly being vetoed by the
communication group.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
A few short years later, the company had gone into the red and was
being reorged into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up
the company ... when the board brings in the former president of of
AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company ... using some
of the same techniques he used at RJR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
i.e.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
CEO posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
folklore/trivia ... after leaving but before the breakup was reversed, we were contacted by somebody in the bowels of Armonk about helping with the mechanics of the breakup. Lots of operations had MOUs with other divisions about using supplier contracts ... all the supplier contracts had to be cataloged and all the dependent MOUs had to be identified and turned into contracts (since these MOUs would then be across different corporations).
while a lot of operations were fleeing mainframes there was core group of financial & wallstreet that had huge dependency on mainframe ... and the risk of migration was more than significant premium they were paying IBM for the mainframe.
The earlier issue was disk technology was moving to fixed-block. CKD
was technology trade-off from the 60s, by the mid-70s it had inverted
... but IBM's favorite son operating system couldn't move off. Circa
1980, I offered to supply the code supporting FBA. I was told that I
needed $26M new business to pay for the documentation and training
... about $200M-$300M in new sales. I was then told that IBM was
selling as many disks as it could make, and FBA support would change
that from CKD to FBA (but no new sales). There haven't been any real
CKD made for decades, all simulated on industry standard fixed-block
disks.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
I had project HSDT doing T1 and faster links and was working with
director of NSF and suppose to get $20M to interconnect the NSF
supercomputer centers. Then congress cuts the budget, some other
things happen and NSF releases an RFP (largely based on what we
already had running), however internal politics prevent us from
bidding (not just communication group). The director of NSF tries to
help, writes a letter to the company 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support of
other agencies ... but that just makes the internal politics worse (as
did comments that what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead
of all RFP responses). As regional networks connect into the centers
it morphs into NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern internet.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
In this time-frame, the communication group makes a presentation to the corporate executive committee why mainframe customers won't need T1 support until well into the 90s. An issue was that the 37x5 boxes only supported up to 56kbits. The 37x5 boxes did have "fat pipes" ... gang 2 or more parallel 56kbit links as single logical link. They showed the IBM customer use of fat pipes with 2, 3, 4, etc links ... dropping to zero by 6 links.
Either the communication group had no knowledge of the telco industry
or just omitted the information in the report to the corporate
executive committee ... but at the time, telco tariffs for full speed
T1 1.5mbit link were about the same as 5or6 56kbit links. In a trivial
survey we found 200 mainframe customers with T1 links ... but had
switched to non-IBM box to drive the link at full speed. Further
aside, during part of the NSF T1 RFP period, there was lots of
internal misinformation about how communication group products could
be used (misinformation not just by the communication group). Somebody
on the distribution, packaged them up and sent us a copy. I've posted
a heavily clipped and redacted version (to protect the guilty) here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
other email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Revival of pessimistic locking Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 11:38:11 -0700"Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:
from long ago and far away
#
# svc 1 = compare and swap (see cs below)
# if a page-fault occurs on load or store we back-track
# to .cs in ds_flih. a wild-branch to the middle of the
# code will either take a program exception on the rfsvc
# or look like a storage exception at the beginning of
# .cs .
#
.org real0+0x1020 # svc 1 comes here.
l r6,0(r3) # load the word
cmp 0,r4,r6 # compare the word
bne 0,noswap # branch if different
st r5,0(r3) # swap word
cal r3,0(r0) # r3 = equal retcode
rfsvc # return
noswap: cal r3,1(r0) # r3 = noswap retcode
rfsvc # return
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Revival of pessimistic locking Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:30:14 -0700"Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:
the original CAS examples were simpler structures ... that didn't
require version sequencing (single threaded list, double threaded list,
counters, etc). SMP &/or CAS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
first time I remember working with similar version sequencing was late
80s for our HA/CMP project ... and cluster scale-up ... working with
national labs on technical and scientific and RDBMS vendors on
commercial scale-up.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
Some of the RDBMS vendors had vax/cluster support in the same source base as the support for other platforms. The easiest way to extend that support to HA/CMP was doing a DLM that implemented vax/cluster semantics. However the RDBMS vendors had some thots on how to significantly improve over vax/cluster implementation ... and I had some ideas dating back to having worked on the original sql/relational implementation.
A non-cluster RDBMS improvement was fast commit ... release record-level lock as soon as the corresponding journal record had been written ... even though the DBMS record hasn't been written (and roll journal forward in case of recovery). The vax/cluster implementation wouldn't pass the lock to another cluster processor until the corresponding DBMS record had been written, and it would then have to read the DBMS from disk. So I sought to extend fast commit to cluster operation ... piggy-backing the record in transmission granting the lock to a different processor. This then requires merging journal records from the different cluster processors in the original transaction execution order. Because didn't have cluster wide synchronized timer, went with transaction version number ... that was transmitted with granting the lock and current record value (academic papers sometimes refer to it as virtual time in recovery with distributed logs/journals).
trivia ... old reference to Jan1992 meeting in Ellison's conference
room regarding cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
then for a number of reasons, over a couple weeks, cluster scale-up was
transferred, announced as supercomputer (for technical and scientific
*ONLY*) and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than
four processors. Old press item from 17Feb1992:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
and later from press from 11May1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
posts mentioning DLM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#64 distributed locking patents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#40 Disk drive behavior
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001c.html#66 KI-10 vs. IBM at Rutgers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#2 Block oriented I/O over IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#47 OT - Internet Explorer V6.0
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#5 OT - Internet Explorer V6.0
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#67 Blade architectures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#1 Blade architectures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#8 Avoiding JCL Space Abends
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#70 A few Z990 Gee-Wiz stats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004i.html#1 Hard disk architecture: are outer cylinders still faster than inner cylinders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004i.html#2 New Method for Authenticated Public Key Exchange without Digital Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#0 Specifying all biz rules in relational data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#5 Tera
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#10 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#70 CAS and LL/SC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#40 clusters vs shared-memory (was: Re: CAS and LL/SC (was Re: High Level Assembler for MVS & VM & VSE))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#55 Foreign key in Oracle Sql
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#26 Crash detection by OS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#42 Development as Configuration
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#8 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#41 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#20 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#32 When Does Folklore Begin???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#62 Greatest Software, System R
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#3 Why so little parallelism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#42 Keep VM 24X7 365 days
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#50 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#61 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#19 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#24 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#55 Capacity and Relational Database
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#49 VLIW pre-history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#33 Google And IBM Take Aim At Shortage Of Distributed Computing Skills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#46 "Server" processors for numbercrunching?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#42 Newbie question about db normalization theory: redundant keys OK?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#43 distributed lock manager
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#69 How does ATTACH pass address of ECB to child?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#81 Random thoughts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#70 Time to rewrite DBMS, says Ingres founder
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#56 performance of hardware dynamic scheduling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#91 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#18 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#63 Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#71 Curiousity: largest parallel sysplex around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#3 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#40 "Larrabee" GPU design question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#43 "Larrabee" GPU design question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#26 Natural keys vs Aritficial Keys
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#36 Ingres claims massive database performance boost
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#67 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#39 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#84 A Faster Way to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#57 U.S. begins inquiry of IBM in mainframe market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#35 DB2 announces technology that trumps Oracle RAC and Exadata
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#32 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#66 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT_vs._SYSCALL/SYSRET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#54 Unix systems and Serialization mechanism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#14 Age
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#82 Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#23 zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#8 New job for mainframes: Cloud platform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#28 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#53 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each other
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#4 Oracle To IBM: Your 'Customers Are Being Wildly Overcharged'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#86 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30 yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#87 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30 yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#19 z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#44 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#73 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#40 Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#40 How Larry Ellison Became The Fifth Richest Man In The World By Using IBM's Idea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#142 IBM Continues To Crumble
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: z/OS Operating System size Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 2 Sep 2016 15:27:36 -0700steve@STEVEBEAVER.COM (Steve Beaver) writes:
cp67 and then vm370 actually did source maintenance.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Samsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 64Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something Date: 02 Sept 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
for a little topic drift, recent discussion in comp.arch, "Revival of pessimistic locking", archived at google groups:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.arch/Aj4cwf8tY3A
a couple of my posts, compare&lock history
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.arch/Aj4cwf8tY3A/89W8D-jhAQAJ
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.arch/Aj4cwf8tY3A/ybJvO6g-AgAJ
also:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#28 Revival of pessimistic locking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#30 Revival of pessimistic locking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#31 Revival of pessimistic locking
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The chip card transition in the US has been a disaster Date: 02 Sept 2016 Blog: FacebookThe chip card transition in the US has been a disaster
After the turn of the century there was large pilot in the US during
the Yes Card period ... at LEO description of the
vulnerabilities at the ATM integrity task force ... somebody commented
that they manage to spend billions of dollars to prove that chips are
less secure than magstripe. Description at the bottom of this Cartes
2002 trip report (gone 404, but lives on at the wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
In the wake of the Yes Card, all evidence of the pilot appeared to have totally disappeared and there was speculation that it would be a long time before it was tried again in the US (allowing foibles to be worked out in smaller jurisdictions).
disclaimer: in the late 90s, I was asked to do a chip that was much more secure than even current chips ... and fast enough to do transaction in 1/10th sec .... even in low-power contactless configuration.
Yes Card posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Deutsche Bank and a $10Bn Money Laundering Nightmare: More Context Than You Can Shake a Stick at Date: 06 Sept 2016 Blog: FacebookDeutsche Bank and a $10Bn Money Laundering Nightmare: More Context Than You Can Shake a Stick at
and "City of London" is big player here
https://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Islands-Uncovering-Offshore-Banking-ebook/dp/B004OA6420/
pg87/loc1816-20:
As I've noted, when Britain's formal empire collapsed, it did not
entirely disappear. Fourteen small island states decided not to become
independent and became instead Britain's Overseas Territories, with
Britain's Queen as their head of state. It is a status that has been
preserved until today. Exactly half of them--Anguilla, Bermuda, the
British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, and
the Turks and Caicos Islands--are tax havens, actively supported and
managed from Britain and intimately linked with the City of London.
money-laundering posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: z/OS Operating System size Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 6 Sep 2016 20:50:14 -0700mike@MENTOR-SERVICES.COM (Mike Myers) writes:
IBM numbers:
z900, 16 processors, 2.5BIPS (156MIPS/proc), Dec2000
z990, 32 processors, 9BIPS, (281MIPS/proc), 2003
z9, 54 processors, 18BIPS (333MIPS/proc), July2005
z10, 64 processors, 30BIPS (469MIPS/proc), Feb2008
z196, 80 processors, 50BIPS (625MIPS/proc), Jul2010
EC12, 101 processors, 75BIPS (743MIPS/proc), Aug2012
z13 published refs is 30% move throughput than EC12 or about 100BIPS
with 40% more processors ... or about 710MIPS/proc (which would be per
processor decline from EC12).
IBM previous references were that at least half of the per processor throughput increase from z10 to z196 was introduction of out-of-order execution and other features that have been part of other platforms for decades. This is critical because of the increasing mismatch between processor machine cycle and memory access latency ... aka memory access latency when measured in count of processor cycles is comparable to 1960s disk access latency when measured in count of 1960s processor cycles (effective throughput is increasingly dependent on how memory access latency is handled).
past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#81 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#83 IBM's z12 mainframe engine makes each clock count
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#90 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#28 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#14 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#44 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#51 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#6 Mainframes are still the best platform for high volume transaction processing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#21 Assembler vs. COBOL--processing time, space needed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#24 Assembler vs. COBOL--processing time, space needed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#26 Mainframes are still the best platform for high volume transaction processing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#10 From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#55 IBM reveals a monster 36-core mainframe module
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#6 mainframe "selling" points
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#45 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#59 Why Intel can't retire X86
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#60 Why Intel can't retire X86
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#10 SAS Deserting the MF?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#23 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#93 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#40 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#51 Mainframe On Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#53 Mainframe On Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#70 50,000 x86 operating system on single mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#35 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#73 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#96 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#12 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#67 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/2014f.html#92 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#2 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#4 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#57 [CM] Mainframe tech is here to stay: just add innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#35 curly brace languages source code style quides
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#85 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#105 IBM 360/85 vs. 370/165
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#29 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#0 What are some of your thoughts on future of mainframe in terms of Big Data?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#93 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#19 Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#83 Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#93 HP being sued, not by IBM.....yet!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#110 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#114 Between CISC and RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#27 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#103 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#24 CeBIT and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#61 Can commodity hardware actually emulate the power of a mainframe?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Samsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 64Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something Date: 06 Sept 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
With respect to presentation to executive committee about customers
not needing T1 until well into the 90s, HSDT was having some custom
hardware built on the other side of the pacific. Friday before I was
to leave on a visit, the communication group announced an internal
"high-speed" discussion group with the following definitions:
low-speed: <9.6kbits
medium-speed: 19.2kbits
high-speed : 56kbits
very high-speed: 1.5mbits
on Monday morning, in a conference room on the other side of the
pacific was the following definitions
low-speed: <20mbits
medium-speed: 100mbits
high-speed: 200-300mbits
very high-speed: >600mbits
past refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#33b High Speed Data Transport (HSDT)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#69 oddly portable machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#45 IBM's Workplace OS (Was: .. Pink)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#59 SR 15,15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#12 network history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#58 Q ALLOC PAGE vs. CP Q ALLOC vs ESAMAP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#25 Data communications over telegraph circuits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#9 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#36 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#4 Google Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#42 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#50 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#64 Damn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#45 Are there tasks that don't play by WLM's rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#45 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#31 VTAM R.I.P. -- SNATAM anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#99 We're losing the battle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#12 Discussions areas, private message silos, and how far we've come since 199x
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#13 "Telecommunications" from '85
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#14 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#72 Mainframe articles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#7 VTAM security issue
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#24 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#44 SNA: conflicting opinions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#59 MasPar compiler and simulator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#11 Crazed idea: SDSF for z/Linux
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#69 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#6 When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#57 So why doesn't the mainstream IT press seem to get the IBM mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#40 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#88 Would mainframe technology be relevant in the age of cloud computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#74 We list every company in the world that has a mainframe computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#54 Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part One)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#15 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#98 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#41 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#41 VM Workshop 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#80 A joke seen in an online discussion about moving a box of tape backups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#87 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#89 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#29 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#45 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#66 OSI: The Internet That Wasn't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#16 z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#66 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#47 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#82 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: British socialism / anti-trust Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:45:57 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
one of quotes (in above post) from 432 manuals:
These problems have led other manufactuers, whose earlier computers
had more conventional architectures, to recognize the wisdom of raising
the level of the hardware-software interface. Consider, for example,
the IBM System 38, IBM's most recent architecture. Not only have the
designers of the System 38 followed the Burroughs approach to
architecture support for high-level languages, they have also included
most of the operating system in the hardware as well. It seems
inevitable that the fundamental problems facing the computer industry
will force more and more manufactuers to take this approach.
... snip ...
As periodic mentioned folklore is some of the people from the failed FS
effort retreated to Rochester and did S/38. One of the nails in the FS
coffin was analysis if application from 370/195 (in this case Eastern Airlines
System/One res system) was moved to the fastest FS processor, it would
have throughput of 370/145 (something like 10-30 times slow down). That
sort of degradation wasn't an issue in the S/38 market. Past FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
AS/400, the S/38 follow-on, drop some of the S/38 features. However, S/38 and original AS/400 were originally implemented on traditional CISC chips with a very high abstraction level implemented in software. The original AS/400 was supposed to have been on 801/risc Iliad ... but for various reasons that failed, and a CISC substitute was quickly created. A decade later AS/400 did move to 801/risc (version of power/pc).
In early 80s, ACM SIGOPS bi-annual meeting (at Asilomar), The 432 group did a presentation. One of the things that they mentioned as big mistake was extremely complex operating system software went directly into silicon. Fixes required manufacturing new silicon chips and physical replacement to fix bugs.
other 432 posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#57 iAPX-432 (was: 36 to 32 bit transition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#62 iAPX-432 (was: 36 to 32 bit transition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#6 Ridiculous
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#27 iAPX432 today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#46 IBM Mainframe at home
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#54 Reviving Multics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#23 Intel iAPX 432
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#24 Intel iAPX 432
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#47 Intel 860 and 960, was iAPX 432
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#52 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#60 Will multicore CPUs have identical cores?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#64 Will multicore CPUs have identical cores?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#73 Athlon cache question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#64 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#46 Performance and Capacity Planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#47 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#42 Why is zSeries so CPU poor?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#44 Any resources on VLIW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#15 "25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#36 Oracle Introduces Oracle VM As It Leaps Into Virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#54 Throwaway cores
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#32 CPU time differences for the same job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#22 CLIs and GUIs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#52 Lack of bit field instructions in x86 instruction set because of patents ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#13 Microprocessors with Definable MIcrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#18 Microprocessors with Definable MIcrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#46 U.S. begins inquiry of IBM in mainframe market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#74 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#1 IA64
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#45 IA64
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#8 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#40 Faster image rotation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#22 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#7 RISCversus CISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#91 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#79 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#2 68000 assembly language programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#15 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#42 i432 on Bitsavers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#14 International Business Marionette
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#57 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#33 Delay between idea and implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#75 Bloat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#23 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#107 IBM 360/85 vs. 370/165
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#62 PL/I advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#63 PL/I advertising
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: what is 3380 E? Date: 08 Sept 2016 Blog: Facebooklong winded post from a couple years ago
Original 3380 had 20 track width spacing between tracks with 885 tracks per platter. then 3380E (1985) doubled the numbers of tracks to 1770 by cutting spacing between tracks in half, then 3380K (1987) cut the spacing between tracks again, increasing to 2655 tracks.
Thin film heads originally dependent on "air-bearing" simulation
... at the time being done on SJR (bldg28) 370/195 with turn-around of
week or two (even with priority processing). Bldg. 15 got engineering
3033 for product testing ... but I had rewritten i/o supervisor so
could put operating system on all the machines in bldg 14 & 15 ... and
run online service. Product testing was only using a couple percent of
the 3033 ... so had almost whole dedicated 3033 for other
purposes. One of the things was setting up being able to run air
bearing simulation getting several turn-arounds/day (earlier, they had
tried running MVS in that environment but it had 15mins MTBF
... requiring manual re-ipl). Even later when getting ready for first
3380 release to customers, they had error simulation regression test
... MVS was still crashing in all cases ... and in 2/3rds of the cases
there was no evidence of what caused the crash ... old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801015
old posts mentioning getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
aka, one of my hobbies was producing and supporting enhanced operating
systems for internal datacenters ... HONE was long time customer since
just about its inception after 23Jun1969 unbundling announcement.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Bldg 14 (disk engineering) and bldg 15 (disk product test) became customers also. Then they started insisting that I come over and play disk engineer also
As an aside I did a internal report about work done for the engineering and product test labs ... and had a passing reference to the experience with MVS 15min MTBF ... which brought down the wrath of the POK MVS organization on my head ... I was later told they would have had me terminated if they could have figured out how ... but they were able to think up some number of other things.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Misc. Success of Failure Date: 11 Sept 2016 Blog: FacebookWe were tangentially involved in this, but didn't know it at the time, beltway bandits have found that they make more money off series of failures
Success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
whistleblower posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
Note the whistleblowers were charged under the 1917 espionage/treason act for reporting to the responsible (cleared) congressional oversight committee (as required by law) ... effectively for threatening beltway bandits revenue flow. More than 5yrs later, the charges were eventually dropped. The jokes on them, the problems were used as excuse to increase the money.
20yrs ago, we consulted on new dataprocessing for 2000 census essentially for free. When census was audited by another agency, census had me up in front of the room answering tje questions all day. Then we met with senior congressional staffer responsible for VA about doing something similar for VA dataprocessing but it was major threat to beltway bandit revenue flow (VA were just coming off a failed billion dollar dataprocessing modernization and gearing up for repeat). Then early in the century, we got a call to respond to an unclassified BAA by IC-ARDA (since renamed IARPA) which basically said that none of the stuff they had did the job, this was a BAA which nobody had responded to and also closed that day. We got in a response and then had several meetings demonstrating that we could do what was required ... and then heard nothing. After the 2007 (success of failure) article came out, we suspected that we had been dealing with the people on the wrong side of the beltway bandits.
OPM hack was avoidable, says congressional report (actually outsourced
to private equity subsidiary)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3117352/opm-hack-was-avoidable-says-congressional-report.html
OPM Contractor's Parent Firm Has a Troubled History
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
OPM contractors in the crosshairs
https://fcw.com/articles/2015/06/24/house-oversight-opm.aspx
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/
used to be called ic-arda
https://web.archive.org/web/20050828171703/http://www.ic-arda.org/about_arda.htm
now called iarpa
http://www.iarpa.gov/whatis.html
had somewhat long term relationship, they've been using software I've
done since back as WSU undergraduate days ... but it was long time
later before I ever found out:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
We are brought in as consultants to small client/server because they want to do payment transactions on their server; the startup had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they want to use; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I had absolute authority for operations between commerce servers and payment gateway (interfaces to the payment networks), but could only make recommendations on the server/browser interface. Almost immediately they violate several of the recommendations which continue to account for many of the exploits that continue to this day.
Somewhat for having done "electronic commerce" we are ask to
participate in X9A10 financial standard working group which had been
given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial
industry for *ALL* retail payments.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
One of the participants in X9A10 is from NSCC, and we are asked in to
NSCC (since merged with DTC forming DTCC) to look at improving the
integrity of trading transactions. I work on it for awhile and then
get a call saying the work is being suspended because a side effect of
the improved integrity would have greatly increased transaction
visibility and transparency (which is antithetical to wallstreet
culture, still before HFT, so only about 1/3rd of the transactions
couldn't stand light of the day).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_Corporation
We would alternate between staying at the WTC Marriott (which the towers fell on) and the Financial Marriott (since renamed), couple blocks down the street (has Roy's Restaurant, we had discovered Roy's on Kauai Poipu)
Eearlier in the 90s, before
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing
we had meetings with SIAC about "no single point of failure"
dataprocessing systems (SIAC since wholly owned NYSE). At the time,
their offices were in WTC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Industry_Automation_Corporation
For X9A10, I work on protocol and chip for making all electronic
transactions safe. Then the business people get involved, financial
institutions have a significant "fraud" surcharge on electronic
transactions. Safe transactions would have eliminated that surcharge
(upwards of $60B/year) and commoditized the transaction business
(enabling more competition). Lots of related patents (all assigned)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
I'm making semi-facetious comments that my chip is at least as good as
anything the gov. is doing. Technical director to the Information
Assurance Directorite (other side of the agency) has an assurance
panel in the trusted computer track at IDF and asks me to participate
https://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
The person running the trusted computing chip is sitting in the front row, so I say its nice to see their TPM is beginning to look more and more like my chip over the past couple years. He then quips back that I haven't had a committee of 200 people trying to help me with my design.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Misc. Success of Failure Date: 12 Sept 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Summer after freshman year, got job working for the plumber. He had contract with project in Idaho and put me on full time on that job ... started out digging ditches. After first two semesters had no callouses and by the end of the first day the blisters were forming, by the end of the 2nd day all the blisters had broken and its was another few days before the pain lets up. After another couple weeks, the main contractor made me foreman on the job (three 9man crews) ... i could read blue prints, run transit ... but still did as much ditch digging as anybody else on the job. It was remote location and so supplies had to be shipped in ... so I also had to manage the supply chain ... I would get in early and walk the job to figure out supplies that would be needed ... because it would take 2-3 days for delivery. Spring rain had put the project behind schedule ... so by the end of July started working 12hr days monday-saturday and 8hrs on sunday (83hr work weeks) ... got double time, triple time, and quadruple time ... before WSU starts again.
I was nerd in k-12 but never worried about fitting in ... never really occurred to me that was necessary. And then I became nerd at WSU ... had my 1st computer class my sophomore year ... and then the university hired me fulltime to be responsible for their production mainframe systems (takes a little longer to graduate since fulltime status capped maximum hrs could take per semester). University would shutdown their datacenter on the weekends, so I had the whole place to myself from 8am saturday until 8am monday ... 48hrs w/o sleep made it a little hard whenever I had monday morning class.
possible all this part of growing up expected to do full days grownup work from very young age, reference posted in this reference about learning to drive (mentioned upthread)
I've periodically told story about achievement test at end of 5th grade and there was math question I had no idea what it was:
2x + y = 5 x + y = 3
I asked and was told it was "algebra" ... and I thought it was very unfair to have something on the test that I had no idea what it was. That summer I would check out (and finish) every math book from the county bookmobile (up through high school trig).
After I graduated and joined IBM ... IBM was rapidly expanding and
after six months asked me if I would become a manger. I asked to read
the official IBM managers manual over the weekend. I came back on
Monday and said it probably wouldn't be a good idea, my experience as
a manager with resolving issues with workers involved attitude
re-adjustment in the parking lot. They never asked me again. I would
joke that if I stopped being technically competent, I might consider
becoming a manager. Later, may account why I felt affinity when I met
John Boyd ... some reference to Boyd in recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#2 Does OODA-loop observation carry a lot of baggage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#89 China builds world's most powerful computer
"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
From the dedication of Boyd Hall, United States Air Force Weapons
School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 17 September 1999
Other Boyd background, Chuck wrote this tribute for USNI Proceedings
after Boyd passes ... for non-members it is here
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
from Ghetto Colonel:
He built up his defenses by eschewing careerism and materialism, which
left the generals and bureaucrats nothing to work on, no opportunity
to gain leverage on him, no bait to tempt him into corruption. The
Ghetto Colonel became an impenetrable fortress, a bastion of moral
power in a way that Mohandas Gandhi would have easily understood. From
the perspective of the bureaucracy's authoritarian mentality, however,
the man was certifiably insane; even worse, he was completely out of
control.
... snip ...
Hugh Laurie (actor on TV House) wrote a novel about the
military-industrial complex ... including some of the things they used
for leverage. He also references Boyd and Boyd's OODA-loop in the
novel. Gun Seller, and loc4605-11
The day Alexander Woolf decided to take on the military-industrial
complex was the day everything changed. For him, for his family, for
his business. Things changed quickly, and they changed for
good. Roused from its slumber, the military-industrial complex lifted
a great, lazy paw, and swatted him away, as if he were no more than a
human being. They canceled his existing contracts and withdrew
possible future ones. They bankrupted his suppliers, disrupted his
labour force, and investigated him for tax evasion. They bought his
company's stock in a few months and sold it in a few hours, and when
that didn't do the trick, they accused him of trading in
narcotics. They even had him thrown out of the St Regis, for not
replacing a fairway divot.
... snip ...
Boyd posts & WWW URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Computers Date: 13 Sept 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
There is a joke ... you can tell those out in front by the arrows in the back (upsetting the status quo).
In my executive interview on leaving IBM ... one of the things I was told, they could have forgiven me for being wrong ... but they were never going to forgive me for being right
I got terminal at home Mar1970 for online accesses. One of my hobbies at IBM was producing and supporting enhanced operating systems for internal (mainframe) datacenters ... and so lots of internal datacenters would let me use their computers .... somewhat similar to previous references to when I was undergraduate, WSU hired me fulltime to be responsible for their production mainframe systems .. and the univ. would shutdown datacenter from 8am sat. to 8am monday ... and let me have the whole place all to myself for 48hrs (although I've mentioned that when I had monday morning class, 48hrs w/o sleep made class a little difficult)
I don't keep any, when I get new computer, I give old ones away to
relatives. I've keep a lot of digital records ... but not old hardware
... some of old email (only a couple prior to 1977 ... more than a
decade worth of records from 60s up until 1977 were destroyed in
unfortunate incident)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html
I claim to be one of the longest "ML" programmer. GML was invented at
the cambridge sicence center in 1969 (nearly 50yrs ago), a decade
later it becomes international ISO SGML standard, after another decade
it morphs into HTML at CERN. First webserver in US (and outside
Europe) was on SLAC VM370 system (also invented at the cambridge
center center in the mid-60 (over 50yrs ago). SLAC reference:
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
posts mentioning GML, SGML, HTML, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
Before I graduate, I'm talked into "fulltime" job with Boeing to help
form Boeing Computer Services (consolidate all dataprocessing in an
independent business unit to better monetize the investment). At the
time, I thought that (Boeing) Renton datacenter was possibly the
largest in the world (with something like $300M in IBM computers, 60s
dollars). Later I meet John Boyd who talks about telling McNamara that
the electronics across the trail wouldn't work ... and I guess
somewhat as punishment he is put in command.of."spook base" (about the
same time I'm at Boeing). Boyd's biography says that "spook base" was
a $2.5B "windfall" for IBM (again in 60s dollars). "spook base"
reference (gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine):
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
Boyd posts & WWW URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
re: looking for <1970s computers, "spook base" mentions having some
1130+2250 which cost only $100K in the 60s (as opposed to big
mainframes that started at several million). Cambridge Science Center
had one, and "Ed" had ported "space wars" (from MIT PDP1). In early
70s, my kids would come in and play "space wars" on
weekends. reference (mentions only about 1000 of them)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/2250.html
posts mentioning cambridge science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1970--a family gets a home computer Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:14:47 -0700Sarr Blumson <sarr.blumson@alum.dartmouth.org> writes:
science center also had a board that balanced on the frame around the 2741 ... wide part on one side, narrow on the other side and wide anough in the back to hold a paper tray ... looked like wide in/out basket. The paper tray was about six inch high ... to hold stack of fan fold paper ... frequently standard green bar printer paper reversed feed so it printed on the back, white side. The printed output then went on the top shelf of the printer tray. Frequently just had a whole box of printer paper on the floor behind the 2741 feeding through the paper tray (instead of small stack of fan-fold paper in the tray). The wide part of the board was 18 inch (24inch?) wide ... and mostly on the right side ... but could be turned upside-down and placed on left side.
all i have left is 2741 apl typeball.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#36
posts mentioning science
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
image shows that frame around keyboard wasn't wide enough to set
anything
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741
this shows the front rollers holding paper down ... it had small
tabs on each side that could pull rollers away from paper ... to
make it easier to feed paper
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/2741.html
this mentions they had 2741 with tractor feed engaging perforated
paper. while we frequently used perforated paper, none of the 2741s I
used had sprockets on the sides to engage side perforations, just
tension/friction holding paper between rollers.
https://www.multicians.org/terminals.html
the 2741 "carriage" was wide enough to feed wide printer paper (with perforations on each side), but also frequently used with 8.5inch wide paper
misc. old posts mentioning 2741:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#2 360/67, was Re: IBM's Project F/S ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#15 unit record & other controllers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#2 Schedulers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#33a High Speed Data Transport (HSDT)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#9 cics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#12 IBM song
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#30 interdata and perkin/elmer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#37 interdata & perkin/elmer machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#39 Mainframes & Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/97.html#22 Pre S/360 IBM Operating Systems?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/97.html#25 Early RJE Terminals (was Re: First Network?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#2 CP-67 (was IBM 360 DOS (was Is Win95 without DOS...))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#29 Drive letters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#32 Drive letters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#49 Edsger Dijkstra: the blackest week of his professional life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#37 why is there an "@" key?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#42 Enter fonts (was Re: Unix case-sensitivity: how did it originate?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#43 Enter fonts (was Re: Unix case-sensitivity: how did it originate?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#51 Internet and/or ARPANET?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#76 Mainframes at Universities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#77 Are mainframes relevant ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#92 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#109 OS/360 names and error codes (was: Humorous and/or Interesting Opcodes)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1970--a family gets a home computer Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:40:33 -0700"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
summer 1977, my home 2741 was replaced with CDI miniterm ... had built in acoustic coupler and I think similar to silent 700
post with picture of cdi-miniterm, (replaced with) ibm 3101 glass
teletype and ibm/pc (used as terminal at home, wasn't able to
find any pictures of my home 2741)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#51
another post with miniterm pictures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#16
miniterm reference here:
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102735382
and
http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/Home/small-systems-at-ricm/miniterm-portable-computer-terminal
I have some vague recollection being told that in 1968, 2741
terminal cost $6k. web references says that new 1970 cars
were priced around $3k (half the price of 2741 terminal)
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-06-16/travel/9606160132_1_family-income-car-prices-household
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: OT: DuPont seeks to screw workers of their pensions Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:58:32 -0700Rikishi42 <skunkworks@rikishi42.net> writes:
there was a legal action brought against the company ... apparently
being part of corporations that lobbied congress in the 90s to allow
pension plans to be shifted from a liability to an asset ... the basis
was then in any bankruptcy ... the pension plan could be treated as an
asset by creditors. listing pension plan as asset increased value per
share boosting stock price ... and was significant help in the new CEO
making their substantial bonus plan objectives. past refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#46 independent appraisers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#58 What is holding back cloud adoption?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#61 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#67 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#49 The Original IBM Basic Beliefs for those that have never seen them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#6 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#91 Open Books Stop Self-Dealing and Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#62 Is IBM Suddenly Vulnerable To A Takeover?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#81 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#0 IBM is Absolutely Down For The Count
this is separate from allowing corporations to have multiple
subsidiaries and freedom to fix which subsidiary profit was declared
in. Saw this in the airline industry in the 80s & 90s where profit from
airline operations subsidiary was booked in the ticket sale subsidiary
... airline operations could declare bankruptcy and dump the pension
plans on the government while the parent company was still making
substantial overall profit ... the profit from ticket sales were
substantially more than losses in the operations side. some past
PBGC (government pension benefit guaranty corporation) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#47 Public key and the authority problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#91 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#26 2007 Year in Review on Mainframes - Interesting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#65 As Expected, Ford Falls From 2nd Place in U.S. Sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#38 What do YOU call the # sign?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#13 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#94 Bankruptcy a reprieve for some companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#8 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#90 Is IBM Suddenly Vulnerable To A Takeover?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#88 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
later in this century ... it evolves to moving the corporate entities
where profit is booked to offshore tax havens ... avoiding US taxes
also. This is seen in the recent apple case ... where Apple was booking
majority of its profits in a operation in Ireland that was little more
than a shoebox in some office (along with lots of other corporate
shoeboxes).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
The Panama Papers
https://panamapapers.icij.org/
Swiss Leaks: Murky Cash Sheltered by Bank Secrecy
https://www.icij.org/project/swiss-leaks
Luxembourg Leaks: Global Companies' Secrets Exposed
https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1970--a family gets a home computer Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 14:37:24 -0700hancock4 writes:
early 80s we were doing T1 (1.5mbyte/sec) and faster speed links ... and
working with director of NSF ... were suppose to get $20M to
interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers ... then congress cuts the
budget, some other things happen and finally an RFP is released (in part
based on what we already had running). Internal politics prevent us from
bidding, the director of NSF tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other agencies copying the CEO ... but that
just makes the internal politics worse (as does comments that what we
already have running is at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). As
regional centers connect into the centers, it evolves into the NSFNET
backbone ... precursor to modern internet. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
mid-80s we are having some equipment built on the other side of the pacific. On the friday before a visit, the communication groups distributes announcement for new online "networking" discussion group with the following definitions:
low-speed: <9.6kbits medium-speed: 19.2kbits high-speed: 56kbits very high-speed: 1.5mbitson Monday morning, in a conference room on the other side of the pacific was the following definitions
low-speed: <20mbits medium-speed: 100mbits high-speed: 200-300mbits very high-speed: >600mbitsrecent ref:
some old HSDT project email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hsdt
In this time-frame, the communication group makes a presentation to the corporate executive committee why mainframe customers won't need T1 support until well into the 90s. An issue was that the 37x5 boxes only supported up to 56kbits. The 37x5 boxes did have "fat pipes" ... gang 2 or more parallel 56kbit links as single logical link. They showed the IBM customer use of fat pipes with 2, 3, 4, etc links ... dropping to zero by 6 links.
Either the communication group had no knowledge of the telco industry or just omitted the information in the report to the corporate executive committee ... but at the time, telco tariffs for full speed T1 1.5mbit link were about the same as 5or6 56kbit links. In a trivial survey we found 200 mainframe customers with T1 links ... but had switched to non-IBM box to drive the links at full speed.
Further aside, during part of the NSF "RFP" period, there was lots of
internal misinformation about how communication group products could be
used (misinformation not just by the communication group). Somebody on
the distribution, packaged them up and sent us a copy. I've posted a
heavily clipped and redacted version (to protect the guilty) here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
trivia: the "winning" NSF RFP response actually only installs 440kbit links (although the RFP calls for T1, 1.5mbits). Then to sort of look like they were satisfying the RFP, they install T1 trunks with telco multiplexors running multiple 440kbit links over the T1 trunks. I periodically ridicule saying why don't you call it a T5 network (... since possibly the T1 trunks were in turn multiplexed over T5, 400mbits trunks at some point).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: British socialism / anti-trust Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 14:53:01 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
"merchants of doubt" also overlaps some with the
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
where some of the same people are involved with "team b" ... spinning
facts to support increases in military spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
also in the 50s, USAF had fabricated the "bomber gap" ... one of the things to remember about the U2 flts, was that it debunked the USAF fabrication, contributing to Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial-complex
past "merchants of doubt" refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#16 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
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#54 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#7 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#59 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#52 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#80 The REAL Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#44 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamationmade30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#31 An insider's story of the global attack on climate science
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#54 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/2014h.html#22 $40 billion missile defense system proves unreliable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#73 10 Big Fat Lies and the Liars Who Told Them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#100 OT: article on foreign outsourcing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#24 Forget the McDonnells. We're ignoring bigger, more pernicious corruption right under our noses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#34 43rd President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#63 12 Reasons America Doesn't Win Its Wars
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/2015f.html#90 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#92 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#38 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Report: Nearly $5 Trillion Spent on Iraq and Afghanistan Wars So Far Date: 18 Sept 2016 Blog: FacebookReport: Nearly $5 Trillion Spent on Iraq and Afghanistan Wars So Far
Part of the original justification for Iraq2 was that it would *ONLY*
cost $50B ... now the two wars are heading for 100 times that. Maybe
the $50B was only what they were planning on skimming ... reports of
air lifts of $60B in pallets of shrink wrap $100 bills
disappearing. This
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
has corporate representatives telling former eastern block countries that if they vote for Iraq invasion, they would get NATO membership and USAID (that can only be used) to buy "modern" US-made weapons.
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
(Iraq) WMDs posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
past estimates wars 100 times more than the $50B claim
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/2013g.html#51 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#38 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#122 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: old Western Union Telegraph Company advertising Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:52:56 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: OT: DuPont seeks to screw workers of their pensions Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:16:47 -0700hancock4 writes:
The CEO made bonus plan and left, later CEOs had to come up with other
ways of boosting share ... most of this century has been with stock
buybacks. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
slightly related mention in recent post ... AMEX in 1992 spins off FDC
in larges IPO up until that time.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#49 old Western Union Telegraph Company advertising
after FDC spins off WU, and 15yrs after FDC is spun off in largest IPO up until that time, KKR does a private-equity reverse IPO (LBO) of FDC in the largest LBO up until that time.
also, other wallstreet entities contributed to 401k lobbying in the 90s ... institutional pension plans had been negotiating extremely small minimal fees. wallstreet saw big income boost with 401ks since the aggregate fees charged for all the individual 401k was way larger than what they were getting from the large institutional pension plans.
The large institutional pension plans were also looted in other ways ...
wallstreet found that they could pay the rating agencies for triple-A
ratings and sell the toxic CDOs to pension funds restricted to "safe
investments". Being able to pay for triple-A rating significantly
contributed to doing over $27T in 2001-2008 ... and accounted for
something like 30% loss in those funds. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: OT: DuPont seeks to screw workers of their pensions Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:29:32 -0700Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> writes:
note stockman takes credit for diverting social security funds in the 80s for military-industrial(-congressional) complex spending ... even pushing through increasing social security taxes so there would be even more to divert for the MICC. recent item from stockman
David Stockman On Why The Reagan Revolution Failed And Trump Arose
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/david-stockman-on-why-the-reagan-revolution-failed-and-trump-arose/
David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was
President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985
... snip ...
MICC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
last decade there were periodic significant pushes to allow wallstreet to take over control of social security ... the downside for congress was there actually wasn't any money there.
however they did managed to translate new pensions into individual
401Ks because wallstreet got significant higher fees from individual
401Ks than they could get from the large pension funds. However, the
managed to loot the large institutional pension funds in other ways
... they were restricted to only dealing in "safe" investments ... but
managed to pay for triple-A ratings on junk assets and then sell them
to the large institutional pension funds (being able to pay for
triple-A ratings on such junk largely enabled being able to do over
$27T 2001-2008)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
there have a number of articles about the FED working with wallstreet
in conjunction with ZIRP funding. Large pension funds made projections
based on assumptions about investment ROI ... but with ZIRP eliminating
most traditional ROI ... it has been forcing funds into much more risky
activity more of the type of "junk bonds" from the 80s ... i.e.
the industry had gotten such a bad reputation during the S&L crisis
that the industry changed its name to private equity and "junk bonds"
became "high-yield bonds".
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
other trivia, during the 80s, the VP (and former CIA director)
said he had no knowledge of
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 last decade another family member presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis.
most recent in the news is (california state) CALPERS and wallstreet (but there is periodic news about other states).
How a pension deal went wrong and cost California taxpayers billions
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-davis-deal/
and
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.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/01/calpers-ceo-anne-stausboll-to-retire-june-30.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/02/calpers-calstrs-board-member-betty-yee-asks-the-sec-to-rescue-public-pension-funds-from-themselves.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/02/calpers-takes-on-risk-where-federal-government-fears-to-tread-provides-liquidity-to-a-central-counterparty-on-the-cheap.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/02/more-evidence-that-the-calpers-board-and-staff-do-not-understand-finance.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/02/california-treasurer-and-calpers-board-member-john-chiang-introduces-private-equity-transparency-bill.html
http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/the-la-beat/10734-the-calpers-soap-opera-getting-weirder-and-weider
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/04/how-calpers-was-taken-by-private-equity-firm-silver-lake.html
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/05/04/why-calpers-wants-you-to-use-the-indiana-toll-road/
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/05/calpers-fiduciary-counsel-robert-klausner-calls-calpers-divestiture-of-tobacco-stocks-a-violation-of-fiduciary-duty.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/05/calpers-invests-in-toll-road-even-thought-those-deals-never-make-money.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/05/calpers-uses-unqualified-expert-to-validate-its-deficient-compliance-and-risk-management-structure.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-01/spectacular-breach-trust-former-calpers-ceo-sentenced-prison-years-bribery
http://fortune.com/2016/06/01/ceo-calpers-prison-bribery/
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/06/calpers-th-lee-row-over-private-equity-fee-abuses-demonstrates-failure-of-sec-oversight.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/oc-register-calpers-expected-to-show-multi-billion-loss-for-fiscal-year-ended-june-30-2016.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/how-treasurer-chiangs-designee-grant-boyken-duped-calpers-board-to-the-detriment-of-taxpayers-and-beneficiaries.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/calpers-announces-preliminary-returns-of-0-6-when-target-is-7-5.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/calpers-reported-that-it-made-less-in-private-equity-than-its-general-partners-did.html
http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/the-la-beat/11493-calpers-private-equity-and-the-quest-to-be-governor
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/after-supporting-treasurer-chiangs-private-equity-transparency-bill-in-public-calpers-gutted-it-behind-the-scenes.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/meet-calpers-board-member-bill-slaton-who-puts-kow-towing-to-private-equity-over-beneficiaries-and-california-taxpayers.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/08/bill-gross-chides-calpers-for-its-7-5-returns-assumption-illinois-set-to-lower-target.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/08/calpers-tainted-fiduciary-counsel-robert-klausner-departs-after-nc-publicizes-his-dubious-history.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/08/calpers-board-general-counsel-illegally-silence-naked-capitalism-even-as-we-try-to-help.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: U.S. Big Banks: A Culture of Crime Date: 21 Sept 2016 Blog: FacebookU.S. Big Banks: A Culture of Crime
The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Way-Rob-Bank-Own-ebook/dp/B00H5B9Z80/
How to Make Sure Bad Bankers Are Held Accountable
http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/how-to-make-sure-bad-bankers-are-held-accountable-1091410-1.html
i.e. Too Big to Fail also became Too Big to Prosecute and Too Big
to Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Wells Fargo CEO's Teflon Don Act Backfires at Senate Hearing; "I Take
Full Responsibility" Means Anything But
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/09/wells-fargo-ceos-teflon-don-act-backfires-at-senate-hearing-i-take-full-responsibility-means-anything-but.html
Elizabeth Warren Hammers Wells Fargo CEO: 'You Should Be Criminally
Investigated' John Stumpf admitted no senior bank executives have been
held accountable in the scam.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-john-stumpf-wells-fargo_us_57e1591ee4b04a1497b6caae
Claims have been that it should be trivial to apply Sarbanes-Oxley
... and bypass all the other stuff ... however I've wanted RICO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Breaking: ICIJ and media partners reveal details of latest offshore leak Date: 21 Sept 2016 Blog: FacebookBreaking: ICIJ and media partners reveal details of latest offshore leak
Former EU Official Among Politicians Named in New Leak of Offshore
Files from The Bahamas
https://www.icij.org/offshore/former-eu-official-among-politicians-named-new-leak-offshore-files-bahamas
Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.icij.org/offshore
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: U.S. Big Banks: A Culture of Crime Date: 21 Sept 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
The Wells Fargo Scandal Was By Design
http://www.ianwelsh.net/the-wells-fargo-scandal-was-by-design/
The only way this sort of thing will stop is if senior management, the
CEO and board members start being charged with crimes. Use RICO
statutes to say it was organized crime (it was), and take their money.
Assign them public defenders. Even if they don't go to jail (and if
they do, it should be to nasty maximum security penitentiaries) they
will lose a decade of their life defending the case, and will serve as
a genuine deterrent to other financial fraudsters.
... snip ...
too big to fail (too big to prosecute and too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Congress, most corrupt institution on earth Date: 22 Sept 2016 Blog: FacebookFirst major act after congress allowed fiscal responsibility act (required spending not exceed tax revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal debt) to expire in 2002 was medicare part-d. CBS 60mins did segment ... 18 republicans were responsible for getting it thru congress ... just before final vote they add one line sentence and prevent CBO from distributing report on the change. 60mins found that within 6months of passing, all 18 had resigned and were on drug industry payroll.
US Comptroller General starts including in speeches that part-d becomes a long-term $40T, totally swamping all other budget items. In the middle of last decade, US Comptroller General also started including in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic for how badly they were savaging the budget.
In 2010, CBO does a report on what happened after allowing fiscal responsibility act to expire ... tax revenue was cut by $6T and spending was increased by $6T for a $12T budget gap compared to fiscal responsible budget (first time that taxes were cut to not pay for two wars). Since then there has been some modest cuts in spending but taxes haven't been restored ... so deficit has continued to increase.
What was done to the budget last decade (tax cuts and spending increase) significantly contributes to congress being referred to as the most corrupt institution on earth.
Fiscal Responsibility Act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
Medicare Part-D
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
Comptroller General
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
related to congress and most corrupt institution on earth
VP (and former CIA director) 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
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
last decade, another family member is presiding over the economic
mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
1999, I'm asked to work on improving the integrity of supporting
documents in securitized mortgages as part of helping to try and
prevent the economic mess. Securitized mortgages had been used during
the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages. Then they find they
can pay the rating agencies for triple-A rating (when both the sellers
and rating agencies know they aren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008
congressional testimony). Triple-A rating trumps supporting documents
and they can start doing no-down, no-documentation, liar
loans. Triple-A rating largely enables them to do over $27T 2001-2008,
including enabling being able to sell to funds restricted to only
dealing in "safe" investments (like large pension funds, contributing
to current significant shortfalls).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Then in Jan2009, I'm asked to HTML'ize Pecora hearings (30s senate
hearings into '29 crash) with lots of internal HREFs and URLs between
what happened then and what happened this time (comments that the new
congress may have an appetite to do something). I work on it for
awhile and then get a call saying it won't be needed after all
(references to enormous mountains of wallstreet cash totally burying
capital hill).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
From the law of unintended consequences ... the largest fines for the
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail) is for
the robo-signing mills ... fabricating all the documents for the
no-document loans.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America" Date: 26 Sept 2016 Blog: FacebookThis account at an annual industry conference in the 40s, they decide to fund a major propaganda campaign equating capitalism with Christianity. The issue was that corporations had gotten extremely bad reputation for the depression and for rebuilding Germany's industry and military during the 20s and 30s ... and they were looking to remake their image. "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America"
June1940, Germany had a victory celebration (in NYC) 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 ...
John Foster Dulles played major role in rebuilding Germany's economy
and military during 20s&30s. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen
Dulles, and Their Secret World War, loc865-68:
In mid-1931 a consortium of American banks, eager to safeguard their
investments in Germany, persuaded the German government to accept a
loan of nearly $500 million to prevent default. Foster was their
agent. His ties to the German government tightened after Hitler took
power at the beginning of 1933 and appointed Foster's old friend
Hjalmar Schacht as minister of economics.
loc873-79:
Sullivan & Cromwell floated the first American bonds issued by the
giant German steelmaker and arms manufacturer Krupp A.G., extended
I.G. Farben's global reach, and fought successfully to block Canada's
effort to restrict the export of steel to German arms makers.
loc905-7:
Foster was stunned by his brother's suggestion that Sullivan &
Cromwell quit Germany. Many of his clients with interests there,
including not just banks but corporations like Standard Oil and
General Electric, wished Sullivan & Cromwell to remain active
regardless of political conditions.
loc938-40:
At least one other senior partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, Eustace
Seligman, was equally disturbed. In October 1939, six weeks after the
Nazi invasion of Poland, he took the extraordinary step of sending
Foster a formal memorandum disavowing what his old friend was saying
about Nazism
... snip ...
From the law of unintended consequences ... when the 1943 US Strategic Bombing program needed location of industrial and military targets in Germany, it got them from wallstreet.
From 5-6 miles high, strategic bombing had trouble actually hitting targets. Later McNamara was LaMay's staff planning fire bombing of German cities (lot harder to miss a whole city) and later Japanese cities. McNamara leaves for the auto industry after the war, but returns as SECDEF for Vietnam where Laos becomes the most bombed country in the world (more tonnage than Germany & Japan combined).
other trivia: US Strategic Bombing Program insisted that all the money go to building strategic bombers (1/3rd of US WW2 budget was for strategic bombers), that long range fighters weren't required. The British tried to explain that the Germans learned that lesson the hard way in the air battle of Britain, but the US insisted that they also learn it the hard way.
"The European Campaign: Its Origins and Conduct" (no precision
strategic bombing), loc2582-85:
The bomber preparation of Omaha Beach was a total failure, and German
defenses on Omaha Beach were intact as American troops came ashore. At
Utah Beach, the bombers were a little more effective because the IXth
Bomber Command was using B-26 medium bombers. Wisely, in preparation
for supporting the invasion, maintenance crews removed Norden
bombsights from the bombers and installed the more effective low-level
altitude sights.
... snip ...
somewhat from propaganda campaign added "under God" to the pledge of
allegiance in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance
and "In God We Trust" in 56,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust
Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation in the U.S. Army,
1917–1945, pg108/loc2408-9:
The Nye Commission asserted that American armament makers and business
interests had dragged the United States into World War I because of
their insatiable greed for profits.
pg108/loc2416-18:
The effects of the domestic crisis caused by the depression, coupled
with the disillusionment with internationalism over debts and the
alleged nefarious dealings of the "merchants of death," created a
national consensus for strict neutrality.
... snip ...
Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public life from 1870 to
1920 loc6265-74:
XXX. THE LEAGUE TO PERPETUATE WAR The war has just begun. I said that
when the Armistice terms were published and when I read the Treaty and
the League Covenant I felt more than ever convinced of the justice of
my conclusion. The Treaty of Versailles is merely an armistice -- a
suspension of hostilities, while the combatants get their wind. There
is a war in every chapter of the Treaty and in every section of the
League Covenant; war all over the world; war without end so long
... snip ...
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#38 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#57 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#10 What Will the Next A-10 Warthog Look Like?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#49 Corporate malfeasance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#64 Isolationism and War Profiteering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#75 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#91 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#49 Fateful Choices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#88 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#90 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#27 British socialism / anti-trust
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Oldest computer in the US government Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:53:52 -0700In HSDT was doing some work with Cyclotomics (UCB company, later bought by Kodak). They had worked on the cdrom standard ... and it was possible to get relatively inexpensive reed-solomon circuits from the cdrom industry.
old a.f.c. post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#27 Data communications over telegraph circuits
about cyclotomics topic talk at stanford colloguium
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#email860414
part of talk was parket radio resend on error, all packets are encoded 15/16s reed-solomon ... for packet in error resend, rather than repeat the same packet, transmit the 1/2 rate viterbi (which is also 15/16s reed-solomon encoded). As signal error rate bases threshold, switch to normally transmitting original packets with 1/2 rate viterbi, as signal quality improves, switch back to only transmitting data packet (and transmitting 1/2 rate viterbi on error).
posts mentioning HSDT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
other posts mentioning cyclotomics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#1 4M pages are a bad idea (was Re: AMD 64bit Hammer CPU and VM)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#53 Free Desktop Cyber emulation on PC before Christmas
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#27 shirts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#37 Why doesn't Infiniband supports RDMA multicast
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#43 360 longevity, was RISCs too close to hardware?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#29 Just another example of mainframe costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#4 Even worse than UNIX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#82 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#19 IBM-MAIN longevity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#23 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#61 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#66 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#46 Follow up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#0 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#58 DASD, Tape and other peripherals attached to a Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#33 SNA vs TCP/IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#75 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#68 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#9 Fwd: [sqlite] presentation about ordering and atomicity of filesystems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#55 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Funny error messages Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:20:02 -0700Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
there was large pilot in the US around the turn of the century ...
during the Yes Card period ... reference at the bottom of this
cartes2002 trip report ... gone 404, but lives on at the "wayback
machine"
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
Federal LEO gave detailed presentation at ATM Taskforce prompting somebody in the audience to loudly comment that they managed to spend billions of dollars to prove smartcards have worse fraud than magstripe. They had myopic focus on lost/stolen card that they totally overlooked skimming/evesdropping attacks and continued to use static data authentication (even tho skimming/evesdropping attacks have been around since the 80s). Basically used the same skimming/evesdropping attacks to acquire magstripe static authentication data ... which is then used to manufacture counterfeit cards. The difference is that they felt so confident in the integrity of the system, that moved business rules out to the cards ... where the point-of-sale terminals would ask the card if the transaction was approved. Counterfeit cards were programmed to always answer that the transaction was approved. countermeasure to counterfeit magstripe card is to deactivate the online account, there was no countermeasure to counterfeit contact smartcard.
In the wake of the Yes Card, all evidence of the large US ilot appeared to evaporate w/o a trace and conjecture was that it could be long time before it was tried in the US again while the issues were worked out in other jurisdictions.
past Yes Card posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
disclaimer: in the late 90s, I was asked to design a chip that had none of the vulnerabilities of the card associations specification even when operated "contactless". One of the issues for the issues still with the smartcard currently now being (re)deployed in the US (after nearly 15yrs) is that it draws a significant amount of power (requiring contact) and still takes quite a long elapsed time. Turns out in chip design it is sometimes possible to trade-off amount of power with elapsed time. However, I was asked to design a chip that could run off small contactless power, do a transaction in less than 1/10th sec (transit industry turnstyle requirement) and still be more secure than even the contact chips currently being deployed.
had booth and demo at the 1999, world wide BAI retail banking show,
ref:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#217 AADS/X9.59 demo & standards at BAI (world-wide retail banking) show
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224 X9.59/AADS announcement at BAI this week
This chip was about 200,000 circuits, normal instruction set programmable ... with the implementation and programming cast in silicon. There was a pass designing the function directly in circuits (... rather than computer programming that were then executed by somewhat convential programmable) reduced circuit count to nearly 30,000 (cutting both power and elapsed time).
Major part of the price/chip was chips per wafer ... since manufacturing costs are essentially fixed per wafer. In the late 90s, problem was that size of circuits had shrunk to the point that for chips of few hundred thousand chips/wafer, wafer wastage from cutting was starting to dominate. This was also affecting RFID chips. Fortunately RFID industry prompted new wafer cutting technology that drastically reduced wafer cut wastage.
other past posts mentioning BAI:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm12.htm#3 [3d-secure] NEWS: 3D-Secure and Passport
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#40 FAQ: e-Signatures and Payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#5 DOD prepares for credentialing pilot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm18.htm#56 two-factor authentication problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#8 Microsoft - will they bungle the security game?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#24 News.com: IBM donates new privacy tool to open-source Higgins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#echeck Electronic Checks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#ppsem1 Payment Processing Seminars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#ppsem3 Payment Processing Seminars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#terror7 [FYI] Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm7.htm#pcards4 FW: The end of P-Cards?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm9.htm#carnivore Shades of FV's Nathaniel Borenstein: Carnivore's "Magic Lantern"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsmore.htm#x959demo AADS & X9.59 demos at BAI (annual world-wide retail banking) show in miami next week
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsmore.htm#bioinfo1 QC Bio-info leak?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsmore.htm#debitfraud Debit card fraud in Canada
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#58 PKI's not working
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#66 Confusing Authentication and Identiification?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ansiepay.htm#x959bai X9.59/AADS announcement at BAI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#229 Digital Signature on SmartCards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#31 Remove the name from credit cards!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#61 PKI/Digital signature doesn't work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#49 Are client certificates really secure?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#25 ESCON Data Transfer Rate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#24 Buffer overflow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#25 the same question was asked in sci.crypt newgroup
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#20 A new e-commerce security proposal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#22 aads strawman/aSuretee at cardtech/securetech ID
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#62 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#13 Today's mainframe--anything to new?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#62 Damn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#32 what does xp do when system is copying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#15 The new urgency to fix online privacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#5 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#19 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#2 Payment Card + Digital Signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#79 Bain: A consulting firm too hot to handle? (Fortune, 1987)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#44 Faster, Better, Cheaper: Why Not Pick All Three?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#13 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#21 8080 BASIC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#28 more on the 1975 Transaction Telephone set
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#41 Special characters for Passwords
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#52 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#1 FALSE: Reverse PIN Panic Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#75 Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#55 Institutional Memory and Two-factor Authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#6 Is it a lost cause?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Funny error messages Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:35:49 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
I really liked being able to take magstripe card out of my wallet, swipe it and put it away, put away wallet, all while clerk is ringing up the purchases.
Now I have to wait & watch the instructions saying do not remove card,
and finally it says can remove card ... which takes some amount of
time. It is not automatic, it is annoying to have to watch for it to
say that can now remove card. It is now 20yrs since the specification
was originally written ... furthermore, it still doesn't work on the
internet ... besdies various false-starts like the yes card period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
MasterCard, Visa seek to speed EMV transactions
http://www.bankingexchange.com/news-feed/item/6213-mastercard-visa-seek-to-speed-emv-transactions
disclaimer: we were brought in as consultants to small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, the startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
then somewhat for having done "electronic commerce", we were asked to participate in the financial transaction standard x9a10 working group (over 20yrs ago), that had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of *ALL* retail payments (POS, face-to-face, internet, credit, debit, ach, etc. aka *ALL*). Part of the effort was doing end-to-end threat & vulnerability studies of several payment mechanisms as part of creating standard.
past reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Funny error messages Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:38:22 -0700Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:
that is built into the chip issued by the issuing bank ... however it was one of the problems with the counterfeit Yes Cards .... they were programmed to always do offline transactions and always approve a transaction ... regardless of size.
It was one of the things I tried to explain to the people putting together the large US pilot around the turn of the century. They were so myopic focused on lost/stolen cards that they said that the issued (valid) cards would be configured to always do online transactions. They couldn't get it through their head that the issue was with counterfeit "Yes Cards" programmed anyway the crooks wanted to (as opposed to valid cards). It was only when they actually saw it happening that it got through what the problem was.
posts mentioning (counterfet) Yes Card
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
other posts mentioning federal leo presentation on Yes Card
at ATM Integrity Taskforce meeting:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#41 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#71 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#97 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#17 Chip and PIN is Broken!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#21 Credit card data security: Who's responsible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#24 Cambridge researchers show Chip and PIN system vulnerable to fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#25 Cambridge researchers show Chip and PIN system vulnerable to fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#26 Should the USA Implement EMV?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#27 Should the USA Implement EMV?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#63 Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#73 A mighty fortress is our PKI, Part II
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#48 Is the United States the weakest link when it comes to credit card security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#52 Payment Card Industry Pursues Profits Over Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#81 The Credit Card Criminals Are Getting Crafty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#0 CARD AUTHENTICATION TECHNOLOGY - Embedded keypad on Card - Is this the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#2 Fun with ATM Skimmers, Part III
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#18 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#71 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#39 ISBNs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#9 Anyone sceptically about Two Factor Authentication?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#55 Mythbusters Banned From Discussing RFID By Visa And Mastercard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#71 Password shortcomings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#33 Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#35 The Conceptual ATM program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#67 Protecting Pin Pad Payment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#50 What will contactless payment do to security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#59 Crypto Facility performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#17 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#20 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#69 Why is the US a decade behind Europe on 'chip and pin' cards?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#17 Online Debit, Credit Fraud Will Soon Get Much Worse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#79 EMV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#67 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#42 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#51 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#39 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#5 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#12 Did 1st EMV transaction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#74 Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#55 Institutional Memory and Two-factor Authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#51 Penn Central PL/I advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#73 The chip card transition in the US has been a disaster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#74 The chip card transition in the US has been a disaster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#34 The chip card transition in the US has been a disaster
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Funny error messages Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:31:22 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
simpler is when the sku code is printed with the bar-code ... then they just have to manually type in sku code ... rather than having to look it up first.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you). Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:23:00 -0700edgould1948@COMCAST.NET (Edward Gould) writes:
Initially offshift was very light, not justifying the cost of keeping the system up ... but w/o 7x24 availability it wouldn't encourage non-primetime online use.
Part of support was allowing "operator's console" to be other than the 1052-7 system console. Other part was auto fast failures with automatic reboot and system up w/o manual intervention.
This was still in the days of when systems were leased with charges based on the "system meter". The "system meter" ran whenver the processor and/or any channels was busy. One trick was channel program that would let channels go idle, but would instantly wake up for any arriving characters. Another issue was that the "system meter" would continue to run for 400milliseconds after all processing and channels were completely idle. Lots of system work was to allow "system meter" to stop (no rental/leased charges) when system idle, but immediately activate when there was anything to do. Trivia: MVS had a system time task that woke up every 400milliseconds long after business converted from rent/lease to sales (guarenteed that system meter never stopped).
Another issue was that the science center had ported apl\360 to CMS for CMS\APL ... and was letting other IBM locations use the system. The business planners in Armonk loaded the most valuable of all corporate data on the cambridge system to run business models. The security of the system had to meet very high security standards (besides being available 7x24 and run dark room w/o human intervention) ... especially since non-employees had online access to the system; students, staff, professors, etc at universities in the boston/cambridge area.
past ibm cambridge science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
There were some spin-offs from the science center that started using CP67 to offer commerical online services (later migrating to VM370). They were also especially sensitive to both operating costs and sensitive to security issues ... especially moving up the value stream to the wallstreet financial community (where large competing financial institutiosn were using the same systems).
past posts about commercial online (virtual machine based) services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#online
There are some similarities between what was being done for these operations in the 60s and what the large cloud operators are doing now in their megadatacenters (hundreds of thousand of systems with tens of millions of processors per megadatacenter) for costs drop to near zero when idle but immediately instant on when needed.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Missile Defense Date: 29 Sept 2016 Blog: Facebooka little topic drift, the POS payment chipcards currently being rolled out were originally specified 20yrs ago by the card associations. This is a couple recent long-winded posts about doing a standard and chip design significantly better than the card association specification (still significantly better than their current roll-out and enormously better than what they were doing 10&20 yrs ago).
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
one of the issues was that it significantly improved the integrity of transactions and radically reduced the barriers to entry for competitors ... part of justification for no uptake. so while I was at it, I looked at changing the existing paradigm from institutional centric (issuing cards) to a person-centric model ... aka why can't I register my card with institution, rather than every institution sending me their card. Their complaint was how could they trust a user presented card ... so I wrote standard that would allow them to trust a user presented card (rather than an institutional issued card). This also further lowered barrier to entry for competitors in trusted infrastructure ... as well as it turns out that institutions have a lot tied up in "branded" cards and a trusted person-centric infrastructure would make it much simpler for users to switch between institutions (they wanted to make it as hard as possible).
along the way, the gov. approached with a problem they had (related to missile systems) ... from the time a chip is manufactured until it is part of a guidance system ... how can they be sure that some of the chips haven't been replaced with counterfeit copy-chips (by some adversary). They felt that the same infrastructure that would support a trusted person-centric model could be adapted to being able to verify that original chips are in the guidance systems (and hadn't been replaced with something else between the time chips were originally manufactured and the time the chips were incorporated into guidance system).
Technical Director to the DDI for the Information Assurance
Directorate is running an assurance session in the trusted computing
track at IDF conference and asks me to talk about some of the stuff
... mostly on base design of the chip to make it resistant to
tampering (as opposed to infrastructure to support person-centric
model for authentication and assurance) ... gone 404, but lives on at
the wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
assurance posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#assurance
some patents on the subject (all assigned), including some of the
person-centric work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Strategic Bombing Date: 29 Sept 2016 Blog: FacebookGrand Coulee Dam: Leaving a Legacy
2/3rds of US WW2 spending went to airplanes ... half of that (aka 1/3rd of US WW2 spending) went to the strategic heavy bombing program.
Grand Coulee Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Coulee_Dam
With the onset of World War II, power generation was given priority
over irrigation
... snip ...
other past grand coulee dam posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#43 VR vs. Portable Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#14 Geothermal was: VLIW pre-history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#7 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#68 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#13 A "portable" hard disk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#66 A "portable" hard disk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#47 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#66 Soups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#3 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#10 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#11 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#44 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#63 [Poll] Computing favorities
The line is that the power was used for aluminum that was needed for strategic heavy bombers (and other planes). Note that 1/3rd WW2 budget went to strategic heavy bombing program. Towards the end, Roosevelt ordered a study to see if strategic bombing was worth it .... turns out even when 1943 US Strategic Bombing program got exact location of german industrial and military targets from wallstreet (aka John Foster Dulles was instrumental in rebuilding German industrial and military in the 20s & 30s and well into 1940), from 5-6 miles up precision bombing was still pretty much of a myth. It possibly helps explain why McNamara was on LeMay's staff planning fire-bombing of German & Japanese cities at the end (it was pretty hard to miss a whole city even from 6miles up). McNamara then leaves for the auto industry after the war, but returns as SECDEF for Vietnam where Laos becomes the most bomb country in the world (more tonnage than Germany & Japan combined).
Bombing of Tokyo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
Donald L. Miller, citing Knox Burger, stated that there were "at least
100,000" Japanese deaths and "about one million" injured. The
Operation Meetinghouse firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9 March
1945 was the single deadliest air raid of World War II, greater than
Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki as single events.
... snip ...
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Other "precision strategic bombing" trivia "The European Campaign: Its
Origins and Conduct", loc2582-85:
The bomber preparation of Omaha Beach was a total failure, and German
defenses on Omaha Beach were intact as American troops came ashore. At
Utah Beach, the bombers were a little more effective because the IXth
Bomber Command was using B-26 medium bombers. Wisely, in preparation
for supporting the invasion, maintenance crews removed Norden bomb
sights from the bombers and installed the more effective low-level
altitude sights.
... snip ...
recent posts mentioning strategic bombing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#57 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#60 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#10 What Will the Next A-10 Warthog Look Like?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#49 Corporate malfeasance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#64 Isolationism and War Profiteering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#75 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#91 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#49 Fateful Choices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#88 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#90 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#27 British socialism / anti-trust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#56 "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America"
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: old Western Union Telegraph Company advertising Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 07:53:37 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
Supposedly TARP funds was appropriated to bail out TBTF and buy the
off-book toxic assets ... but with only $700B it hardly would make a
dent in the problem, just the four largest TBTF were still carrying
$5.2T in off-book toxic assets the end of 2008. The TARP funds was
actually used for something else and it was up to the FED to bailout the
TBTF.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
It was left to the FED to bailout the banks buying off-book toxic at
98cents on the dollar and providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds. The
FED fought a long hard legal battle to prevent disclosing what it was
doing. When it lost, the FED chairman held a press conference and said
that he had thought that the TBTF would use the ZIRP funds to help
mainstreet, but when they didn't, he had no way to force them (but that
didn't stop ZIRP funds).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
note that this FED chairman had supposedly been selected in part, because he was student of the depression, but the FED had tried something similar then with the same result ... so there should have been no reasonable expectation that the TBTF would act any different this time.
past posts mentioning Pecora hearings (30s senate hearings into
crash of '29) and/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
one of the scenarios is that ZIRP funds (and almost non-existent
interest) are to force investors and retirees into the stock market,
where wallstreet can loot whatever is left that hasn't already been
looted. That activity has been aggrevated with HFT where they can
further disguise the questionable transactions that manipulate the
market. recent posts mentioning HFT:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#75 American Gripen: The Solution To The F-35 Nightmare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#68 Eric Hunsader Explains To CNBC That "Markets Are Always Rigged"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#11 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#95 Is it a lost cause?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#40 Misc. Success of Failure
recent posts mentioning ZIRP funds:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#8 Too Big To Fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#26 1970--protesters seize computer center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#12 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#25 SS Trust Fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#42 Nobody saw the economic mess coming last decade
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#58 Wall Street strikes back against Bernie Sanders
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#73 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#84 Trump vs. Hillary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#110 The Koch-Fueled Plot to Destroy the VA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#49 Federal Debt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#58 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#86 Wells Fargo "Admits Deceiving" U.S. Government, Pays Record $1.2 Billion Settlement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#88 Goldman Slammed With $5.1 Billion Fine For "Serious Misconduct" In Mortgage Selling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#99 Why Is the Obama Administration Trying to Keep 11,000 Documents Sealed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#19 Banking; The Book That Will Save Banking From Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#27 Old IBM Mainframe Systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#70 So, what was your computer birthplace?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#98 Trust in Government Is Collapsing Around the World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#54 Social Security Trust Fund IOUs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#89 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#0 IBM is Absolutely Down For The Count
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#51 OT: DuPont seeks to screw workers of their pensions
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: old Western Union Telegraph Company advertising Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 08:10:43 -0700Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:
what the FED chairman was referring to TBTF were doing with ZIRP funds,
instead of helping mainstreet, was buying treasuries ... and having been
clearing around $300B/yr on the spread ... but they needed enormous
federal debt for this work.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
that is the scenario that TBTF and FED were part of the forces that
wanted congress to let the fiscal responsibility act (spending couldn't
exceed tax revenue and on its way to eliminating all federal debt) to
expire in 2002. That was coupled with the special interests that wanted
big increase in tax loopholes and military-industrial complex (and other
interests) that wanted big increase in spending (sort of perfect tsunami
of graft and corruption)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
2010, CBO did report that since fiscal responsibility act lapsed in
2002, tax revenue was cut $6T and spending increased $6T for $12T budget
gap compared to fiscal responsible budget (and first time taxes were cut
to not pay for two wars). Since then tax revenue hasn't been restored
and only modest cuts in spending, so federal debt has continued to grow
(and TBTF running the ZIRP/treasuries mill). One of the jokes is that
the FED could have instead been using the ZIRP funds to buy treasuries
directly and federal debt wouldn't cost anything ... but then the TBTF
wouldn't be getting their $300B/yr.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Funny error messages Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:09:50 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
Englebart had cord keyboard/keyset for augment
https://books.google.com/books?id=CEc1OOGmA5IC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=engelbart+augment+chord+keyboard&source=bl&ots=22cgVdzFRi&sig=Y-N6vD4qN7QBo8fs21et1d8Xh5M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNnLDFyLfPAhUP8mMKHXJpCW4Q6AEIXzAM#v=onepage&q=engelbart%20augment%20chord%20keyboard&f=false
Early 80s, human factors group in IBM San Jose got some cord keyboards that were hemisphere ... sort of like large mouse where all the fingers of your hand fit into depression that had rocker switches under fingerstips ... that had studies that achieved 50% more throughput than standard QWERTY keyboard ... i.e. characters and sequences were represented by combinations of different ways the switches under finger tips were pressed/released.
Minuturization wasn't sufficient for base to be small enough to work as mouse ... but these days, it would be possible to do something similar that operated as mouse also and totally eliminate standard keyboard.
past posts mentioning cord keyboards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#31 stupid user stories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#4 markup vs wysiwyg (was: Re: learning how to use a computer)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#55 creat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#47 creat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#50 stacks: sorting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#51 stacks: sorting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#22 vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#29 Even worse than UNIX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#11 Typewriter vs. Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#58 Doug Englebart
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Strategic Bombing Date: 30 Sept 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
more about enormous resources poured into (aluminum) airplanes, 2/3rds
of all US WW2 spending and long range heavy strategic bombers was half
of that (or 1/3rd of the total US WW2 budget). They discounted that
long range heavy strategic bombers needed figher escort defenses and
drank the koolaid that there was precision bombing (from 5-6miles up),
Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1917–1945,
pg168/loc3900-3904:
In May 1940 President Roosevelt told Congress that he wanted a program
that could produce 50,000 aircraft a year and "provide us with 50,000
military and naval planes."92 Shortly thereafter, on June 26, Marshall
approved the first aviation objective of organizing fifty-four combat
groups by April 1942.93
pg169/loc3919-22:
Four officers prepared the important sections of AWPD-1: Colonel
Harold L. George, Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth N. Walker, Major Laurence
S. Kuter, and Major Haywood S. Hansell.99 All were staunch bomber
advocates and former instructors at the Tactical School. The plan they
prepared reflected the essence of the radical air power doctrine that
focused on the preeminence of the long-range strategic bomber
pg170/loc3947-49:
The planners, even after revealing a crucial weakness in one of their
key assumptions—that bomber formations could rely on their own
defensive armament to fight their way through to their objectives—did
not give high priority to any alternative plan.
pg171/loc3953-56:
AWPD-1 was the quintessential expression of American strategic bombing
theory. The plan was alluring because the airmen seemed to promise
that "precision bombing will win the war."107 Indeed, AWPD-1
specifically stated that "if the air offensive is successful, a land
offensive may not be necessary."
... snip ...
British tried to warn them about folly of their plan, but US went ahead anyway and had to learn the hard way (lots of planes and people shot up) before plans for long-range fighter escort. And the lack of precision bombing would contribute to the switch to fire-bombing cities/citizens.
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real Date: 03 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookIBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real
some past refs:
Bank of America Foreclosure Reviews: Why the OCC Overlooked
"Independent" Reviewer Promontory's Keystone Cops Act (Part VB)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/bank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-why-the-occ-overlooked-independent-reviewer-promontorys-keystone-cops-act-part-vb.html
Regulatory Looting, Promontory-Style: Botched Foreclosure Reviews
Alone Generate More than Double Goldman's Revenues per Employee
http://batrdailybusinessreport.blogspot.com/2013/06/regulatory-looting-promontory-style.html
Bank of America Foreclosure Reviews: Why the OCC Overlooked
"Independent" Reviewer Promontory's Keystone Cops Act (Part VB)
http://stopforeclosurefraud.com/2013/02/11/bank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-why-the-occ-overlooked-independent-reviewer-promontorys-keystone-cops-act-part-vb/
Insider Says Promontory's OCC Foreclosure Reviews for Wells are
Frauds. Brought to You by HUD Sec. Donovan By Abigail Field, a
freelance writer and attorney who blogs at Reality Check Foreclosure
Fraud - Fighting Foreclosure Fraud
http://4closurefraud.org/2012/02/27/abigail-field-insider-says-promontorys-occ-foreclosure-reviews-for-wells-are-frauds-brought-to-you-by-hud-sec-donovan-by-abigail-field-a-freelance-writer-and-attorney-who-blogs-at-reali/
Promontory , Under Investigation by New York Department of Financial
Services
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/07/new-york-times-dealbook-underplays-misconduct-by-regulatory-fixer-promontory-under-investigation-by-new-york-department-of-financial-services.html
New York Department of Financial Services Slams Bank Fixer Promontory
Group, Hitting it in Its Profits and Reputation
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/08/new-york-department-of-financial-services-slams-bank-fixer-promontory-group-hitting-it-in-its-profits-and-reputation.html
New York investigating consulting firms Promontory and PwC in
laundering cases
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/new-york-investigating-consulting-firms-promontory-and-pwc-in-laundering-cases/2013/09/13/2e40627c-1c7f-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story.html
Promontory's Role In The Dodd-Frank Game
http://swampland.time.com/2013/09/16/one-firms-role-in-the-dodd-frank-game/?iid=sl-main-belt
Foreclosures (2012 Robosigning and Mortgage Servicing Settlement)
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/foreclosures/index.html
Is BofA's Foreclosure Review Really Independent? You Be the Judge
http://www.propublica.org/article/is-bofas-foreclosure-review-really-independent-you-be-the-judge
Settling The Foreclosure Reviews: Winners And Losers
http://www.forbes.com/sites/francinemckenna/2013/01/08/settling-the-foreclosure-reviews-winners-and-losers/
OCC Bungled Foreclosure Settlement from Start to Finish
http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_45/occ-bungled-foreclosure-settlement-from-start-to-finish-1057304-1.html
OCC Releases Embarrassing List of Foreclosure Review Payouts on Eve of
Senate Hearings
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/04/occ-releases-embarrassing-list-of-foreclosure-review-payouts-on-eve-of-senate-hearings.html
Foreclosed Homeowners Got $300, Bank's Consultants Got $2 Billion
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/17181-foreclosed-homeowners-got-300-banks-consultants-got-2-billion
some past posts mentioning Promontory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#73 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#16 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#36 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#64 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#19 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#42 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#50 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#17 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#63 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#64 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Security Design: Stop Trying to Fix the User Date: 04 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookSecurity Design: Stop Trying to Fix the User
in alt.folklore.computers, we've had numerous discussions over the decades about people having to adapt to technology rather than the other way around. The counter is highway safety engineering and automobile safety engineering .... where a lot of work goes into safety engineering ... redesigning highways and automobiles to help eliminate and/or mitigate the most dangerous characteristics. Some of this reminds of the auto seatbelt discussions wars from the mid-60s.
disclaimer: I've worked on virtual machine technology (major
compartmentalization technology) since late 60s, nearly 50yrs.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
We were tangentially involved in (original) cal. state data breach
notification law. We had been brought in to help word smith the
cal. state electronic signature laws and many of the participants were
heavily involved in privacy issues. They had done detailed, indepth
public privacy surveys and the #1 issue was identity theft, primarily
fraudulent financial transactions as a result of breaches. The issue
was that little or nothing was being done about the breaches;
nominally entities take security procedures in self-protection
... however the institutions weren't at risk, it was the public; it
was hoped that the publicity from the notification would prompt
corrective action. Note that since then there have been numerous
federal (preemption) notifications bills introduced (none passed)
about evenly divided between those similar to cal. and those that
would essentially eliminate most requirements for notification.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
Cal. was also working on a opt-in personal information sharing bill (i.e. institutions were required to have record of your explicit approval to share information) when an (federal preemption) "opt-out" provision was added to GLBA (aka institutions can share your information unless they have explicit record of you objecting). At 2004 national annual privacy conference in WashDC, there was panel discussion with all the FTC commissioners. Somebody in the audience got up and asked them if they were going to do anything about "opt-out", they said they worked for major call center company that was used by all the major financial institutions ... and he knew that none of their call centers provided any way of making record of calls to their "opt-out" numbers (i.e. there would never be any record of people objecting to sharing their personal information).
misc. past posts mentioning auto/highway safety engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#17 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#81 Selling Security using Prospect Theory. Or not
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#66 Why do IBMers think disks are 'Direct Access'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#85 IBM 029 service manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#67 Outgunned: How Security Tech Is Failing Us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#77 ZeuS attacks mobiles in bank SMS bypass scam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#32 The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#47 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#29 Java Security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#61 What Makes a bridge Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#90 Experts: Network security deteriorating, privacy a lost cause
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#98 Cybersecurity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#35 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Under Hawaii's Starriest Skies, a Fight Over Sacred Ground Date: 04 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookUnder Hawaii's Starriest Skies, a Fight Over Sacred Ground
trivia: in early 80s, was asked in to do some work related to the "Berkeley 10m" telescope (was going to be erected on Mauna Kea). The issue was they wanted to do remote viewing from the mainland ... and part of the effort was transition from film to digital (CCDs). At the time, they were testing 200x200 (40K) CCDs at Lick observatory.
There was also some politics going on with NSF ... they didn't want to take NSF money, because it would result in giving up control of viewing schedule to NSF. The eventually got funding from Keck foundation.
some past posts mentioning Lick and/or Keck:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#7 CCD technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#8 CCD technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#9 CCD technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#9 Jack Kilby dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#12 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#20 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#50 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#30 What do YOU call the # sign?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#32 What do YOU call the # sign?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#80 A Super-Efficient Light Bulb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#82 ATMs by the Numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#85 ATMs by the Numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#55 TV Big Bang 10/12/09
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#60 TV Big Bang 10/12/09
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#24 Program Work Method Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#58 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#9 Hawaii board OKs plan for giant telescope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#10 Slackware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#86 OT: Physics question and Star Trek
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#55 360/20, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#8 We're About to Lose Net Neutrality -- And the Internet as We Know It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#76 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#50 Revamped PDP-11 in Honolulu or maybe Santa Fe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#56 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#75 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#19 Spaceshot: 3,200-megapixel camera for powerful cosmos telescope moves forward
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#20 Spaceshot: 3,200-megapixel camera for powerful cosmos telescope moves forward
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#97 power supplies
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Under Hawaii's Starriest Skies, a Fight Over Sacred Ground Date: 04 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
On the other hand, about at the same time, we were working with the
director of NSF on interconnecting the NSF supercomputers. We were
suppose to get $20M, but then congress cuts the budget, some other
things happen, and eventually a RFP was released (in part based on
what we already had running). Internal politics prevent us from
bidding on the contract. The NSF director tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO), with support from other agencies,
but that just makes the internal politics worse (as does comments that
what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP
responses). some old email from the period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
past posts mentioning HSDT (high-speed data transport) project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real Date: 04 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
disclaimer: 1999 I was asked to try and help prevent the coming
economic mess. securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L
crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages and I was asked to look at
improving the integrity of mortgage supporting documents as
countermeasure. They then find that they can pay the rating agencies
for triple-A ratings. The triple-A ratings mean that they can start
doing no-documentation liar loans, securitize, pay for triple-A and
sell as fast as they can make them (no longer needing to care about
buyers qualifications or loan quality). With no-documentation (liar)
mortgages, there is no longer any issue of supporting documentation
integrity. The triple-A ratings also open the market to operations
that are restricted to "safe" investments (like large public & private
pension funds). Federal Reserve, FDIC, and SEC that have jurisdiction
do nothing. Oct2008 congressional hearings into the pivotal role that
the rating agencies played say that both the sellers and the rating
agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A. This is largely the enabler
to do over $27T done 2001-2008. A tv reporter during the hearings
comments that he believes that there would never be any criminal
prosecution. some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
A decade later, Jan2009 I'm asked to HTML'ize the Pecora hearings (30s
senate hearings into '29 crash that resulted in criminal convictions
and Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal HREFs and URLs between what
happened this time and what happened then (references that the new
congress might have an appetite to do something). I work on it awhile
and then get a call saying it won't be needed after all (references to
enormous mountains of wallstreet money totally burying capital hill).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
from the law of unintended consequences, the largest economic mess related fines for the TBTF was for their robo-signing mills fabricating the missing mortgage documents (for foreclosures). However the fines were supposed to be for the victims, however they were administered by these institutions setup by the TBTF and regulators
other refs:
Promontory , Under Investigation by New York Department of Financial
Services
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/07/new-york-times-dealbook-underplays-misconduct-by-regulatory-fixer-promontory-under-investigation-by-new-york-department-of-financial-services.html
New York Department of Financial Services Slams Bank Fixer Promontory
Group, Hitting it in Its Profits and Reputation
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/08/new-york-department-of-financial-services-slams-bank-fixer-promontory-group-hitting-it-in-its-profits-and-reputation.html
New York investigating consulting firms Promontory and PwC in
laundering cases
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/new-york-investigating-consulting-firms-promontory-and-pwc-in-laundering-cases/2013/09/13/2e40627c-1c7f-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story.html
Promontory's Role In The Dodd-Frank Game
http://swampland.time.com/2013/09/16/one-firms-role-in-the-dodd-frank-game/?iid=sl-main-belt
Foreclosures (2012 Robosigning and Mortgage Servicing Settlement)
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/foreclosures/index.html
Is BofA's Foreclosure Review Really Independent? You Be the Judge
http://www.propublica.org/article/is-bofas-foreclosure-review-really-independent-you-be-the-judge
Settling The Foreclosure Reviews: Winners And Losers
http://www.forbes.com/sites/francinemckenna/2013/01/08/settling-the-foreclosure-reviews-winners-and-losers/
OCC Bungled Foreclosure Settlement from Start to Finish
http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_45/occ-bungled-foreclosure-settlement-from-start-to-finish-1057304-1.html
OCC Releases Embarrassing List of Foreclosure Review Payouts on Eve of
Senate Hearings
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/04/occ-releases-embarrassing-list-of-foreclosure-review-payouts-on-eve-of-senate-hearings.html
Foreclosed Homeowners Got $300, Bank's Consultants Got $2 Billion
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/17181-foreclosed-homeowners-got-300-banks-consultants-got-2-billion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real Date: 04 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
economic mess was over $27T in (toxic) securitized loans 2001-2008
... given triple-A, enabling them to sell everything they could
generate, includingto funds restricted to only "safe" investments,
like large pension funds (which also accounts for significant part of
their shortfall today).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
The issue was regulatory bodies weren't enforcing the rules that they
had ... capable of preventing the economic mess including pivotal role
that the rating agencies played (and would have caught more recent
activities), SEC, Fed Reserve, FDIC, OCC, Treasury, etc.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
An example was in the congressional Madoff hearings, they had the
person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get the SEC to do
something about Madoff (SEC's hands were forced when Madoff turned
himself in, speculation was that he was looking for gov. protection
after having defrauding some unsavory characters). Congress asked if
new regulations were needed, he replied that while new regulations
might be needed, much more importance would be transparency and
visibility (antithetical to wallstreet culture) .... in part because
existing regulations weren't being enforced.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
In the wake of ENRON, congress passes Sarbanes-Oxley .... rhetoric on
floor of congress was that it would prevent future ENRONs and
guarantee executives and auditors did jail time, but it required SEC
to do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was
doing anything, GAO started doing reports of public company fraudulent
financial filings ... even showing uptic after SOX goes into effect
... and nobody doing jailtime. Possibly less well known is that SOX
also required SEC to do something about rating agencies ... but SEC
did about as much about the rating agencies as they did about the
fraudulent financial filings.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
more trivia: the triple-A ratings eliminated any reason for them to care about borrower's qualifications and loan quality ... because they could sell off everything as fast as they could be made. However, they then found they could create toxic securitized mortgages designed to fail, sell to their victims and take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy mortgages, i.e. they wanted them to fail). The largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG and netogiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar. Then the sec. of treasury steps in and says that it is illegal to pay off at less than face value, AIG has to sign a document that they can't sue those making the CDS gambling 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 firm formally headed by the secretary of treasury (last decade there was a joke that the US treasury was the firm's branch office in Washington).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real Date: 04 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
another example; we were tangentially involved in (original)
cal. state data breach notification law. We had been brought in to
help word smith the cal. state electronic signature laws and many of
the participants were heavily involved in privacy issues. They had
done detailed, indepth public privacy surveys and the #1 issue was
identity theft, primarily fraudulent financial transactions as a
result of breaches. The issue was that little or nothing was being
done about the breaches; nominally entities take security procedures
in self-protection ... however the institutions weren't at risk, it
was the public; it was hoped that the publicity from the notification
would prompt corrective action. Note that since then there have been
numerous federal (preemption) notification bills introduced (none
passed) about evenly divided between those similar to cal. and those
that would essentially eliminate most requirements for notification.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
Cal. was also working on a opt-in personal information sharing bill (i.e. institutions were required to have record of your explicit approval to share information) when an (federal preemption) "opt-out" provision was added to GLBA (aka institutions can share your information unless they have explicit record of you objecting). At 2004 national annual privacy conference in WashDC, there was panel discussion with all the FTC commissioners. Somebody in the audience got up and asked them if they were going to do anything about "opt-out", he said he worked for major call center technology company that was used by all the major financial institutions ... and he knew that none of their call centers provided any way of making record of calls to their "opt-out" numbers (i.e. there would never be any record of people objecting to sharing their personal information). The FTC commissioners just ignored him.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: GLBA & Glass-Steagall Date: 04 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookThe rhetoric on floor of congress was that primary purpose of GLBA was if you already had a banking charter, you got to keep it, but if you didn't already have one, you couldn't get one (i.e. keep new competition and more efficient new technologies out of banking). Later several more things were added to GLBA and then GLBA initially passes along party lines and folklore was Clinton was going to veto it, they then go back and add some other things so it passes with veto proof 90-8. Clinton was talked into signing it, since any veto would have been empty gesture.
President of AMEX was in competition to be the next CEO and wins. The looser leaves, taking their protegee and go to Baltimore taking over what was called a loan sharking business. They make several more acquisitions and eventually acquire Citibank in violation of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby congress for repeal of Glass-Steagall ... which is one of the things added to GLBA. "Federal Pre-emption" "opt-out" is also added to GLBA (to block pending california state legislation that would have required "opt-in", aka record of individual's agreement for personal information sharing). "opt-out" allows institution to share personal information unless there is record of individual objecting.
AMEX was also in competition with KKR for private-equity LBO of RJR
and KKR wins. KKR runs into trouble with RJR and hires away the
president of AMEX (before he becomes CEO) 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 was being reorganized into 13 "baby
blues" in preparation for breaking up the company. The board then
hires away the former head of AMEX to reverse the breakup and
resurrect the company. He uses some of the same techniques used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
disclaimer: jan2009, I'm asked to HTML'ize the Pecora hearings (30s
senate hearings into the '29 crash that resulted in criminal
convictions and Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal cross-HREFs and
URLs between what happened this time and what happened then (comments
that the new congress might have an appetite to do something). I work
on it for awhile and then get a call that it won't be needed after all
(comments that capital hill buried under enormous mountains of
wallstreet cash).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Earlier today, I posted much longer explanation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#69 IBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#73 IBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#74 IBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#75 IBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real
a little of the post ... 1999 I was asked to try and help prevent the
coming economic mess. securitized mortgages had been used during the
S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages and I was asked to look
at improving the integrity of mortgage supporting documents as
countermeasure. They then find that they can pay the rating agencies
for triple-A ratings. The triple-A ratings mean that they can start
doing no-documentation liar loans, securitize, pay for triple-A and
sell as fast as they can make them (no longer needing to care about
buyers qualifications or loan quality). With no-documentation (liar)
mortgages, there is no longer any issue of supporting documentation
integrity. The triple-A ratings also open the market to operations
that are restricted to "safe" investments (like large public & private
pension funds). Federal Reserve, FDIC, OCC, Treasury and SEC that have
jurisdiction do nothing. Oct2008 congressional hearings into the
pivotal role that the rating agencies played say that both the sellers
and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A. This is
largely the enabler to do over $27T done 2001-2008. A tv reporter
during the hearings comments that he believes that there would never
be any criminal prosecution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
Repeal of Glass-Steagall didn't enable the economic mess, it was
largely the rating agencies and lack of regulatory enforcement. The
repeal of Glass-Steagall did enable too big to fail ... so they got
bailed out (instead of prosecuted and sent to jail). They then are
also involved in many other criminal acts, manipulating LIBOR, foreign
exchange, commodities markets, money laundering for drug cartels and
terrorists, etc ... when you start seeing too-big-to-prosecute and
too-big-to-jail in the press.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
related to congress and most corrupt institution on earth
VP (and former CIA director) 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
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
last decade, another family member is presiding over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis
From the law of unintended consequences ... the largest fines for the too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail) is for the robo-signing mills ... fabricating all the documents for the no-document loans.
other triva: last decade there was enormous uptic in outsourcing
gov. to for profit companies ... especially those owned by
private-equity companies that lobbied intensely on behalf of their
subsidiaries. There was rapid spreading success of failure culture
among the beltway bandits.
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
when the former AMEX president left IBM, he went to head up a
different private-equity company that did LBO of company that would
employee Snowden; 70% of budget and over half people to for-profit
companies ... that are under intense pressure to cut corners and
generate revenue for their private-equity owners
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
we essentially consulted for free to commerce for the year 2000 census on backend dataprocessing (when they got audited, I was asked to handle all day up in front of the room). we then tried to do something similar for VA hospital system and had meeting with head hill staffer responsible for VA, They were just coming off a failed billion dollar dataprocessing modernization and gearing up for another couple billion dollar effort ... our offer turns out to be one of the worst threats to beltway bandits.
Possibly as a result of census work, early last decade we got a call to respond to an unclassified BAA that essentially said none of their tools did the job and the BAA was closing that day. We got response in to the BAA and showed we could do what was needed ... and then absolute nothing. Several years later, we speculated that we may have been on the wrong side of the success of failure forces.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Why the cloud is bad news for Cisco, Dell, and HP Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:06:27 -0700Why the cloud is bad news for Cisco, Dell, and HP
this started some 20+yrs ago with clustered supercomputers and was picked up by growing internet server operations ballooning into their megadatacenters after the start of the century. This article could have been written ten years ago.
possibly also why IBM unloaded its server business.
old reference to jan1992 meeting in ellison conference room on cluster
scale-up for commercial
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
within a couple weeks after the ellison meeting, cluster scale-up
was transferred, we were told we couldn't work on anything with
more than four processors and announced as supercomputer, 17Feb1992
press article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
and 11May1992 press article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
past email working on cluster scale-up for commercial and
supercomputers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
lots of past posts mentioning megadatacenters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#72 Price of CPU seconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#68 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#79 Google Data Centers 'The Most Efficient In The World'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#56 IBM drops Power7 drain in 'Blue Waters'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#90 A Faster Way to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#78 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#27 A "portable" hard disk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#62 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#51 Mainframe Hacking -- Fact or Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#14 Facebook doubles the size of its first data center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#3 When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#46 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#16 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#17 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/2011f.html#32 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
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/2011h.html#32 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#9 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#75 Check out June 2011 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#23 Cloud computing - is it a financial con trick?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#70 New IBM Redbooks residency experience in Poughkeepsie, NY
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#11 PKI "fixes" that don't fix PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#35 Last Word on Dennis Ritchie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#19 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#32 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#43 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#44 Data Areas?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#53 HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#55 What is Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#63 Intel's 1 teraflop chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#75 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#86 Clouds in mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#22 1979 SHARE LSRAD Report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#122 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#11 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#20 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#24 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#78 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#80 Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#82 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#6 Cloud apps placed well in the economic cycle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#41 Are rotating register files still a bad idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#2 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#35 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#41 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#50 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#19 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#20 Mainframes Warming Up to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#59 How many cost a cpu second?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#60 How many cost a cpu second?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#15 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#16 Think You Know The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#9 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#14 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#26 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#34 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#95 printer history Languages influenced by PL/1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#41 Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#16 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#20 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#28 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#34 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#42 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#87 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#3 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#13 Intel Confirms Decline of Server Giants HP, Dell, and IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#28 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/2012n.html#48 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#56 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#69 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#6 Mainframes are still the best platform for high volume transaction processing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#58 What is holding back cloud adoption?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#16 From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#17 Still think the mainframe is going away soon: Think again. IBM mainframe computer sales are 4% of IBM's revenue; with software, services, and storage it's 25%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#7 mainframe "selling" points
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#8 mainframe "selling" points
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#10 FW: mainframe "selling" points -- Start up Costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#15 A Private life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#25 Still think the mainframe is going away soon: Think again. IBM mainframe computer sales are 4% of IBM's revenue; with software, services, and storage it's 25%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#91 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#19 Where Does the Cloud Cover the Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#28 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#35 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#37 Where Does the Cloud Cover the Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#51 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#61 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#70 How internet can evolve
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#73 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#74 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#7 SAS Deserting the MF?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#12 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#21 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#43 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#45 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#40 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#60 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#66 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#23 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#24 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#32 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#62 Mainframe vs Server - The Debate Continues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#63 Mainframe vs Server - The Debate Continues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#70 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#53 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#56 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#50 Mainframe On Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#70 50,000 x86 operating system on single mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#33 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#35 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#38 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#61 Bet Cloud Computing to Win
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#71 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#23 Scary Sysprogs and educating those 'kids'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#94 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#4 IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#27 IBM sells x86 server business to Levono
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#72 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#108 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#4 Can the mainframe remain relevant in the cloud and mobile era?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#8 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#12 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#53 IBM hopes new chip can turn the tables on Intel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#80 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#84 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#86 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#4 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#20 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#65 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#5 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#24 IBM Opens New SoftLayer Data Center In Hong Kong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#33 Can Ginni really lead the company to the next great product line?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#46 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#57 [CM] Mainframe tech is here to stay: just add innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#68 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#5 "F[R]eebie" software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#20 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#87 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#2 Flat (VSAM or other) files still in use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#0 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#56 This Chart From IBM Explains Why Cloud Computing Is Such A Game-Changer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#90 What's the difference between doing performance in a mainframe environment versus doing in others
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#113 How Much Bandwidth do we have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#129 Is there an Inventory of the Installed Mainframe Systems Worldwide and or for Europe alone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#144 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#145 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#155 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#166 Slushware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#170 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#35 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#46 Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#82 Is there an Inventory of the Installed Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#57 Economics of Mainframe Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#30 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#50 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#69 Cambridge's HPC-as-a-service for boffins, big and small
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#0 What are some of your thoughts on future of mainframe in terms of Big Data?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#5 Can you have a robust IT system that needs experts to run it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#35 Moving to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#83 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#93 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#18 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#19 Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#83 Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#93 HP being sued, not by IBM.....yet!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#57 Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#93 Google joins Facebook's game-changing project that's eating the $140 billion hardware market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#104 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#24 CeBIT and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#61 Can commodity hardware actually emulate the power of a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#50 China takes the lead in supercomputing while America sleeps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#90 Google and Facebook put their fierce rivalry aside to save money in this key area
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#62 remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: GLBA & Glass-Steagall Date: 06 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
old article about private-equity company that does LBO of BAH:
IBM's Gerstner to Join Carlyle As Investment Firm's Chairman
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1037893592918171788
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
and another BAH employee:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/10/05/hal-er-um-bah-bites-nsa/
one of the issues is gov. agencies can't lobby congress, and companies can't use money from gov. contracts to lobby congress. But it is possible to outsource gov. to beltway bandits that are owned by private-equity companies ... and the private-equity companies can lobby congress (on behalf of companies they own). article from today
How Corporations Bought Washington (it was cheap)
https://fabiusmaximus.com/2016/10/06/corporate-lobbying-a-government-for-sale
note that the above mentions executive order to close the "revolving door" ... however there was also campaign rhetoric that the enormous uptic in outsourcing that went in the previous administration would be reversed ... which didn't happen.
private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: GLBA & Glass-Steagall Date: 06 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Also as detailed above, repeal of Glass-Steagall didn't result in
"toxic mortgage-fueled meltdown of 2008", repeal of Glass-Steagall
resulted in too big to fail and lack of prosecution for the crimes,
not just toxic mortgage, but also manipulating LIBOR, FOREX,
commodities, money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists, tax
evasion, etc; aka too big to prosecute and too big to jail. The
"toxic mortgage-fueled meltdown of 2008" was triple-A ratings on
toxic CDOs largely enabling doing over $27T 2001-2008 (and being
able to sell to funds restricted to "safe" investments like large
public & private pension funds, contributing to significant shortfalls
today) and the CDS gambling bets (designing toxic securitized
mortgages to fail, sell to their victims, and take out CDS gambling
bets they would fail). This was happening because all the
administration regulatory agencies weren't enforcing regulations
(Federal Reserve, SEC, OCC, CFTC, FDIC, Treasury, etc) 2001-2008.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
Trivia: The chairman of CFTC proposed regulating CDS gambling bets,
The CFTC chairman was then quickly replaced by the wife of the primary
senator behind GLBA (and repeal of Glass-Steagall) while he got
legislation preventing CFTC regulating CDS gambling bets, the wife
then resigns and joins the ENRON board and member of the audit
committee. Preventing CFTC from regulating CDS gambling bets was
originally characterized as gift to ENRON (leveraging CDS as part of
manipulating its financial reports), but was also later used in the
economic mess.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
the triple-A ratings eliminated any reason for them to care about borrower's qualifications and loan quality ... because they could sell off everything as fast as they could be made. However, they then found they could create toxic securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their victims and take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy mortgages, i.e. they wanted them to fail). The largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG and negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar. Then the sec. of treasury steps in and says that it is illegal to pay off at less than face value, AIG has to sign a document that they can't sue those making the CDS gambling 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 firm formally headed by the secretary of treasury (last decade there was a joke that the US treasury was the firm's branch office in Washington).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: GLBA & Glass-Steagall Date: 07 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
note: another from the law of unintended consequences ... spring 2008, it started to dawn on some investors that the rating agencies were selling triple-A ratings ... and it might not be possible to trust any of their ratings ... resulting in the muni-bond market freezing (because investors couldn't calculate risk). Warren Buffett steps in to offer muni-bond insurance to unfreeze the market.
(triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
past posts mentioning muni-bond insurance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#60 Did sub-prime cause the financial mess we are in?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#11 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#29 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#77 Who first mentioned Credit Crunch?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#81 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#17 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#43 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#46 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#30 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#60 In your opinon, what is the highest risk of financial fraud for a corporation ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#2 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble: Munger
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#44 S&P Downgrades USA; Time to Downgrade S&P?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#69 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#66 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#63 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#68 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#1 Royal Pardon For Turing
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#24 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#31 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#82 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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/2016c.html#65 A call for revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#19 Banking; The Book That Will Save Banking From Itself
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The baby boomers' monumental quagmire in Iraq Date: 07 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookThe baby boomers' monumental quagmire in Iraq
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
Team B posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
Rumsfeld white house chief of staff (74-75), after replacing CIA
director he becomes SECDEF (75-77), and replaced by his assistant,
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" member (note "Team B" was also involved in supporting
Iran/Iraq war)
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 ...
Note military-industrial complex wanted the Iraq2 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). From the law of unintended consequences, invaders were told to
bypass ammo dumps looking for the fabricated WMDs ... later when they
got around to going back, over million metric tons had evaporated.
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
In Vietnam US relied heavily on heavy aritiliary and air power. This
was greatly refined Desert Storm where US Air Power dominated the
field. Assertions are that Iraq had learned from Desert Storm and
changed tactics to minimize targets for US Air Power. Then large
artillery shells start showing up in IEDs including taking out Abram
tanks (large artillery shells were adapted to IEDs rather than large
guns and tanks). This account has Abram's so vulnerable that they took
to running the route before taking Abrams out (also 2007-2008 worse
than Fallujah 2004-2005, but didn't get coverage because
amdinistration said things were better)
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Baqubah-Killing-Our-Way-ebook/dp/B007VBBS9I/
Part of original Iraq2 justification was that it would *only* cost $50B ... assuming advances in air power would be even more effective than Desert Storm ... however it didn't work out that way. Two wars are now projected to exceed $5T (over 100 times more) when long term veterns' benefits/care taken into account.
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/
The Clausewitz Roundtable
https://www.amazon.com/Clausewitz-Roundtable-Michael-J-Lotus-ebook/dp/B01KCX0G4Y/
loc3772-75:
To select just one inexcusable failure, Secretary of DEFENSE Donald
Rumsfeld was determined to use a relatively small force to execute the
war, believing correctly that the goal of destroying the Iraqi army
could be achieved in this fashion, and that using a relatively smaller
force was otherwise advantageous. However, this approach was totally
at odds with the further, ill-considered war aim of "transforming"
Iraq into a democratic ally. This aim was delusional and should never
have been a policy of the American government.
... snip ...
Boyd "acolyte" on "perpetual war" (objective of military-industrial
complex)
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: At Booz Allen, a Vast U.S. Spy Operation, Run for Private Profit Date: 08 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookAt Booz Allen, a Vast U.S. Spy Operation, Run for Private Profit
triva: last decade there was enormous uptic in outsourcing gov. to for
profit companies ... especially those owned by private-equity
companies that lobbied intensely on behalf of their subsidiaries
(gov. agencies can't lobby congress and companies can't use money from
gov. contracts to lobby congress, but private-equity owners can lobby
on behalf of the companies they own). There was rapid spreading
success of failure culture among the beltway bandits.
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
when the former AMEX president left IBM, he went to head up a
different private-equity company that did LBO of company that would
employee Snowden; 70% of budget and over half people for-profit
companies ... that are under intense pressure to cut corners and
generate revenue for their private-equity owners
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
more trivia: after stint in POK responsible for mainframe loosely-coupled architecture, my wife went to new IBM subsidiary that was located in large office bldg. in Tysons Corner. When IBM liquidated the subsidiary, the office bldg. was eventually acquired by BAH. BAH then built a 2nd identical bldg with lobby between the two. Some years ago we had meeting with former agency director that had joined BAH ... who's office was nearly identical physical location of my wife's office (when BAH bought the bldg, they gutted the interior, but the office was same flr and same set of windows).
other past refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#19 Tysons Corner, Virginia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#23 Tysons Corner, Virginia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#20 Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM's Gerstner to Join Carlyle As Investment Firm's Chairman Date: 08 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookIBM's Gerstner to Join Carlyle As Investment Firm's Chairman
How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA; A new cybersecurity
elite moves between government and private practice, taking state
secrets with them.
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
... the private-equity firm that had become the nation's ninth-largest
defense contractor by 2001:
Among them was Halliburton, the Texas oil-services and logistics
firm. In 1995, after retiring as George H.W. Bush's defense secretary,
Dick Cheney became the CEO of Halliburton. Over the next five years,
he transformed the company into one of the world's largest military
contractors. Around the same time, the elder Bush was hired as a
senior adviser to the Carlyle Group. By the time Cheney became George
W. Bush's vice president in 2001, outsourcing was official policy, and
the migration of senior-level government officials into the defense
and intelligence industries was standard practice.
... snip ...
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
Carlyle does LBO of BAH ... Snowden's employer
Spies Like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent
of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than
half of the available manpower. They're not going away any time soon
unless the CIA and NSA want to start over and with some off-the-shelf
laptops, networked by the Geek Squad from Best Buy. Security
clearances used to be a government function too, but are now a profit
center for various private-equity subsidiaries.
... snip ...
Gerstner had been president of AMEX and they were in competition with
KKR for private equity LBO of RJR. KKR won, but when they ran into
trouble, they hired Gerstner away to turn it around. IBM was being
reorganized to breakup into the 13 "baby blues" when the board hires
Gerstner to resurrect the company and reverse the breakup, using some
of the same techniques used at RJR:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
another BAH contractor
https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/10/05/hal-er-um-bah-bites-nsa/
one of the issues is gov. agencies can't lobby congress, and companies can't use money from gov. contracts to lobby congress. But it is possible to outsource gov. to beltway bandits that are owned by private-equity companies ... and the private-equity companies can lobby congress (on behalf of companies they own). article from today
How Corporations Bought Washington (it was cheap)
https://fabiusmaximus.com/2016/10/06/corporate-lobbying-a-government-for-sale
note that the above mentions executive order to close the "revolving door" ... however there was also campaign rhetoric that the enormous uptic in outsourcing that went on in the previous administration would be reversed ... which didn't happen.
At Booz Allen, a Vast U.S. Spy Operation, Run for Private Profit
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/us/booz-allen-hamilton-nsa.html
triva: last decade there was enormous uptic in outsourcing gov. to for
profit companies ... especially those owned by private-equity
companies that lobbied intensely on behalf of their subsidiaries
(gov. agencies can't lobby congress and companies can't use money from
gov. contracts to lobby congress, but private-equity owners can lobby
on behalf of the companies they own). There was rapid spreading
success of failure culture among the beltway bandits.
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
Success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
more trivia: after stint in POK responsible for mainframe loosely-coupled architecture, my wife went to new IBM subsidiary that was located in large office bldg. in Tysons Corner. When IBM liquidated the subsidiary, the office bldg. was eventually acquired by BAH. BAH then built a 2nd identical bldg with lobby between the two. Some years ago we had meeting with former agency director that had joined BAH ... who's office was nearly identical physical location of my wife's office (when BAH bought the bldg, they gutted the interior, but the office was same flr and same set of windows).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: We Use Words to Talk. Why Do We Need Them to Think? Date: 09 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookWe Use Words to Talk. Why Do We Need Them to Think?
I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network
(precursor to social media, larger than the arpanet/internet from just
about the 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 (sometimes I was accused of being responsible for
1/3-1/2 of traffic on the internal network that had a couple hundred
thousand people). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
Somewhat as a result, a researcher was paid to sit in the back of my office for nine months taking notes on how I communicated, face-to-face, telephone, went with me to meetings, got logs of all instant messages and copies of all incoming and outgoing email. The results were research reports, papers, talks, books, and Stanford PHD (joint between language and computer AI, winograd was adviser on the AI side).
Earlier in the researcher's career, they were ESL teacher ... and commented that I used english like a non-native speaker ... except I don't have any other native natural language. Conjecture was that I spent a great deal of time thinking w/o words.
There have been somewhat similar discussions about being proficient in
computer languages ... similar to proficiency in natural languages
... where a person gets to proficiency level that they can think and
dream in the computer language (rather than having to think in some
other language and constantly translate to a computer language). some
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
Other trivia, was working with Director of NSF in the early 80s and
was suppose to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers
(I had a project I called HSDT that had T1 and faster speed links),
then congress cuts the budget, some other things happen and finally
NSF releases an RFP (in part based on what we already have
running). Internal politics prevent us from bidding. The NSF director
tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO), but that just made the internal politics worse (as did comments that
what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP
responses). As regional networks hook into the centers, it becomes the
NSF backbone (precursor to the modern internet). some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
Fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil .... from an earlier post on Boyd
& Strategy ... 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).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 3033 Date: 09 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookpossibly more than you ever wanted to know. Future System in the 1st half of the 70s was going to completely replace 360/370 and was totally different and during this era, 370 efforts were being shutdown (I continued to work on 360/370 stuff during this period and periodically would ridicule FS ... which wasn't exactly a career enhancing activity). When FS imploded, there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 pipeline .... 303x and 811 (3081) were kicked off in parallel. THey took 158 integrated channels for the 303x channel director. A 3031 was 158 engine with just the 370 microcode and a 2nd 158 engine with just the integrated channel microcode. A 3032 was 168-3 reconfigured to work with channel director as external channels. 3033 started out 168-3 logic remapped to some warmed over FS chips that were 20% faster. some longer winded discussion
We had a project that was 16-way 370 multiprocessor and got the 3033
processor engineers to work on it in their spare time (lot more
interesting than the 168-3 remap). Lots of people in POK that it was
really great until somebody told the head of POK thot it could be
decades before the POK favorite son operating system had effective
16-way support. Then some of us were asked to never visit POK again
(it wasn't until start of next century that IBM shipped 16-way).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
Out in San Jose, I was allowed to wander around the plant site. Bldg14
disk engineering lab was doing pre-scheduled, around-the-clock, 7x24
stand-alone testing. At one point they had tried MVS, but in that
environment MVS had 15min MTBF (requiring manual re-ipl). I offered
to rewrite i/o supervisor to make it bullet-proof and never fail,
allowing, on-demand, anytime testing ... greatly improving
productivity. Bldg14 & bldg15 (disk product test) tended to get the
3rd or 4th engineering processor for disk & channel testing (processor
engineers would have the first and second). Bldg15 got both early 3033
and 4341 engineering processors. Turns out that even with several I/O
testing going on concurrently, it would only use a couple percent of
the processor ... so we had pretty much the whole rest of the machines
to do other stuff with. A few of us then had nearly whole 3033 and
4341 for playing with. past posts getting to play disk engineer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
I did do an internal only write up of the work for bldg14 & bldg15 for bullet-proof i/o subsystem ... but happened to mention the MVS 15min MTBF ... which brings down the wrath of the MVS organization on my head (there was some folklore they would have had me terminated if they could have figured out how).
one of the 3033 problems was 158 integrated channels were some of the slowest and highest latency processing ... and using the 158 integrated channels for the 303x channel director turned out to have the same performance characteristics (like reference, 303x was part of the mad rush to get new 370 out the door after FS imploded, aka the lack of 370 offerings during the FS period is credited with giving the clone processor makers market foothold). At least 3033 wasn't as bad as 3081.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 3033 Date: 09 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
FE had process that required bootstrap diagnostic starting with scope diagnoses. 3081 started TCM and it was no longer possible to scope anything. They did roll-your-own "service" UC processor with probes into the TCMs. The UC processor could be scoped/serviced, and then the service processor used to diagnose TCMs. They learned that for the 3081 service processor they spent almost all their time writing operating system for the UC processor.
For the 3090, they decided instead to use 4331 running enhanced
version of VM370 release 6 and all the menu screens implemented using
CMS IOS3270. Before shipping, they switched to using a pair of 4361s
(instead of single 4331) ... called "3092". The 3092 (aka 4361 running
vm370/cms) each required 3370 FBA disks ... even for customers that
ran MVS ... which never had any FBA support, only CKD support (there
haven't been any real CKD disks made for decades, just simulated on
industry fixed-block disks).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
As soon as 3033 was out the door, the 3033 processor engineers start work on trout1.5 (becomes 3090)
MVS people have claimed in the 80s that they had a table for 16 processors ... the issue was that while they added a table for 16 processors .... they still had structure didn't allow that many processors to operate effectively concurrently.
Charlie had invented compare-and-swap instruction while he was doing
fine-grain multiprocessor locking for CP67 at the science center
("compare-and-swap" was chosen because CAS are charlie's
initials). Trying to get it added to original 370 architecture was
rebuffed, we were told that the POK favorite son operating system
people claimed that test-and-set (from 360/65MP) was more than
sufficient. We were challenged to come up with compare-and-swap uses
that weren't multiprocessor locking specific ... thus was born the
compare-and-swap examples that still appear in principles of
operation.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
MVS on high-end 370 & 303x would talk about getting 1.2-1.3 times a single processor. Part of it was 370 2-way multiprocessor slowed machine cycle down 10% to tolerate cross-cache chatter between two processor ... aka 2-way was only 1.8 times processor of single machine. The rest involved MVS multiprocessor overhead and locking. I did some work on multiprocessor kernel tweaks that could get slightly better than 1.8times a single processor (I played some games with cache affinity and drastically reduced operating system multiprocessor overhead; cache affinity improved avg. cache hit rate, which resulted in more instructions running per second).
1980, I'm con'ed into doing some channel extender support for STL that
was moving 300 IBM people to offsite bldg, with service back to STL
datacenter.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
Then an attempt is made to release it to customers, but a group in POK was playing with some serial stuff and get it blocked because they are afraid that it might make it more difficult getting their stuff out.
In 1988, I'm asked to help LLNL standize some serial stuff they have ... that quickly becomes FCS (1gbit, concurrent in each direction). Finally in 1990, the POK people get their stuff released as ESCON with ES/9000 (when it is already obsolete).
About the same time I'm asked to work on SCI out of SLAC ... which was then used for 128-system and 256-way SMP in the mid-90s. POK finally comes out with z900 16-way in Dec2000.
Some POK people become involved in FCS and define an enormously
heavy-weight protocol that drastically reduces I/O throughput compared
to native FCS throughput .... which is eventually released as FICON.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
past posts mentioning 3092 service processor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#37 IBM 3614 and 3624 ATM's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#10 Different Implementations of VLIW
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#22 Evil weather
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#50 Mainframe Hall of Fame: 17 New Members Added
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#32 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#34 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#38 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#71 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#62 3090 ... announce 12Feb85
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#31 TCP/IP Available on MVS When?
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/2011f.html#42 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/2011h.html#68 IBM Mainframe (1980's) on You tube
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#13 Last card reader?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#21 Supervisory Processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#58 Why can't the track format be changed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#23 M68k add to memory is not a mistake any more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#38 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#53 Image if someone built a general-menu-system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#76 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#23 VM Workshop 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#83 How smart do you need to be to be really good with Assembler?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#0 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#68 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#25 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#33 What Makes code storage management so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#27 Getting at the original command name/line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#32 Getting at the original command name/line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#91 rebuild 1403 printer chain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#30 GUI vs 3270 Re: MVS Quick Reference, was: LookAT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#31 Hardware failures (was Re: Scary Sysprogs ...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#14 23Jun1969 Unbundling Announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#21 Complete 360 and 370 systems found
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#105 DOS descendant still lives was Re: slight reprieve on the z
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#42 DUMPRX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#7 More IBM DASD RAS discussion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Why the cloud is bad news for Cisco, Dell, and HP Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 18:35:09 -0700JimP. <blue@cwahi.net> writes:
lots of things don't have very good security ... including things like
automobiles. I've pontificated a lot about security proportional to
risk (and/or "risk proportional to security"). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
trivia ... original draft of BASAL-2 included new qualitative section
(including how well executives and others understood how the business
worked) for "risk adjusted capital reserves" previously purely
quantitative based. we had some meetings at NYFed regarding how
qualitative risk adjusted capital reserves might be done. However,
during the review process ... qualitative section effectively was
gutted (we made jokes about they probably didn't really know)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_II
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Why the cloud is bad news for Cisco, Dell, and HP Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 10:25:48 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
nothing particularly new ...
There was (old) report about war-dialing to every number in sanfran/sanjose/bayarea area codes ... something like 1% of numbers had modem. Lots of systems didn't have passwords or easily guessed passwords ... medical office systems, a couple of the 911 systems in the area, HVAC control systems, lots of other.
decade later there was analysis of dial-up HVAC control system for (very) large (systemic critical) financial datacenter ... where the attack was to raise the temperature ... all the machines had thermal shutdown ... and datacenter was down for day or two (but lots of other installations were found to be vulnerable, like hospitals).
more recently ... lots of SCADA systems in the news accessible
remotely with little or no security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCADA
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
war-dialing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#38 "war-dialing" etymology?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#41 "war-dialing" etymology?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#57 Computer Naming Conventions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#59 Computer Naming Conventions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#32 Usenet invented 30 years ago by a Swede?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#58 Vintage computers are better than modern crap !
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#32 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#48 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#73 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#76 Mainframe hacking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#50 Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#52 Wardialing statistics( was: "Cartons of Punch Cards" )
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#62 Caches, was Wardialing statistics(
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#24 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Security by Obscurity or is it Secure by Design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#100 On a lighter note, even the Holograms are demonstrating
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#50 old amiga HVAC
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Why the cloud is bad news for Cisco, Dell, and HP Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:54:11 -0700andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) writes:
a decade ago, big (public) cloud datacenters were claiming they assembled their own servers (using commodity parts) for 1/3rd the cost of brand name servers. They were also carefully selecting their "commodity" parts based on lifetime costs (they released some papers on lifetime costs, MTBF, etc ... for things like disk drives).
These "mega" datacenters claim hundreds of thousands of servers with millions of processors. large cloud operator would have several to dozens of such megadatacenters around the world.
reduction in server costs was so great that total datacenter costs started to shift to cooling and electricity ... and they moved to the forefront of green computing.
there started being reports that processor markers were shipping half their product directly to the large cloud operations (that did their own assembly). Within the past couple years ... there have started being reports that large cloud operators are started to have manufacturing runs of customized processors tailored just for them.
security and attacks are just another of the service availability factors that they have had to deal with.
possibly there may be some dataprocessing outsourcing that offer bargain basement prices for raw iron w/o any additional features ... but in general the large public cloud operators have the cost of their specialized hitech operations (including security and attack countermeasures) spread across millions of units.
one of the differences with the brand name vendors ... is that the brand name vendors view most of the computer related stuff as "profit" ... while the large cloud operations view the megadatacenters as "costs" (and are motivated to optimize them as much as possible, optimize doesn't simply mean eliminate $$$, it means make them optimized).
There is some overlap with the large data breaches in the news.
We were tangentially involved with the cal (original) data breach
notification legislation ... having been brought in to help wordsmith
the cal. electronic signature legislation. ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
several of the members were heavily involved in privacy and had done indepth, detailed consumer surveys ... and the #1 issue was "identify theft" ... primarily involving fraudulent transactions as the result of databreaches. At the time, little or nothing was being done abut the data breaches. An issue was that entities typically take security measures in self defense ... however in the case of these breaches, the institution wasn't at risk ... it was the public. It was hoped that the publicity from the breach notifications would prompt corrective countermeasures.
However, an institution client of some cloud operation ... where the cloud operator has the best security available ... it is still possible for the institution to deploy some application that allows security breaches.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Iceland finds all guilty in banker market-abuse case Date: 11 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookIceland finds all guilty in banker market-abuse case
Jan2009, I'm asked to HTML'ize Pecora hearings (30s senate hearings
into '29 crash, criminal convictions and Glass-Steagall) with lots of
internal HREFs and URLs between what happened then and what happened
this time (comments that the new congress may have an appetite to do
something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call saying it
won't be needed after all (references to enormous mountains of
wallstreet cash totally burying capital hill). past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
S&L crisis had 1,000 criminal convictions with jail time, economic
mess last decade was 70 times larger (and no convictions with jail
time, proportionally should have 70,000 doing jail time). past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 12 Oct 2016 09:27:17 -0700charlesm@MCN.ORG (Charles Mills) writes:
claim is that over half of per processor improvement from z10 to z196 was introduction of latency masking technology (that have been in other platforms for decades), out-of-order execution (proceed with other instructions while waiting for cache miss), speculative execution and branch prediction (start executing instructions before condition for branch is available), etc. (aka basically do other things while waiting on memory).
z196->ec12 is supposedly further refinements in memory latency masking
features (again have been in other platforms for decades).
z900, 16 processors, 2.5BIPS (156MIPS/proc), Dec2000
z990, 32 processors, 9BIPS, (281MIPS/proc), 2003
z9, 54 processors, 18BIPS (333MIPS/proc), July2005
z10, 64 processors, 30BIPS (469MIPS/proc), Feb2008
z196, 80 processors, 50BIPS (625MIPS/proc), Jul2010
EC12, 101 processors, 75BIPS (743MIPS/proc), Aug2012
z13 published refs is 30% more throughput than EC12 (or about 100BIPS)
with 40% more processors ... or about 710MIPS/proc
I've told story before about after FS imploded there was mad rush
to get stuff back into 370 product pipelines ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
303x and 3081 were kicked off in parallel, 3031&3032 were 158&168 repackaged to work with channel director ... and 3033 started out 168 logic mapped to some warmed over FS chips that were 20% faster.
we had a project to do 16-way SMP multiprocessor and had con'ed the 3033 processor engineers to work on it in their spare time (lot more interesting than 3033), many in POK thot it was really neat ... until somebody told the head of POK that it could be decades before the POK favorite son operating system had effective 16-way support ... then some of us were instructed to never visit POK again (and the 3033 processor engineers were told to stop getting distracted). 16-way finally ships almost 25yrs later (Dec2000).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 12 Oct 2016 10:33:28 -0700lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
science center ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
had done virtual machines, virtual memory, paging, etc operating systems in the 60s ... as well as lots of performance monitoring and optimization technology. we gave POK some tutorials in the 70s when they were migrating from os/360 to VS2 on the subject.
One of the performance optimizating technologies done by the scientific center was eventually released to customers as "VS/Repack" ... it did semi-optimated program organization for paging environment. These days, caches are the modern memory, and cache misses are the modern page faults, and latency to memory (when measured in processor cycles) is comparable to access to paging devices.
In the 70s, lots of OS/VS products used the internal version of VS/Repack for adapting their products to virtual memory environment (also for use on general performance optimization ... since a of the tools that could feed into VS/Repack and program organization could be used for hot-spot analysis)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud Date: 12 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookChain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
loc610-12:
Countrywide, which came out of nowhere to become the nation's largest
mortgage originator, was part of a new system of mortgage financing
that realized Lew Ranieri's master plan for Wall Street domination of
the residential housing market. Congress shepherded the industry down
this path, eliminating roadblocks so lenders could issue mortgages to
people with bad credit.
... snip ...
Note, glosses over a few details. Oct2008 congressional hearing into
role that the rating agencies played in the economic mess, testimony
was that both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they weren't
worth triple-A. Triple-A ratings enabled being able to sell to funds
that were restricted to "safe" investments, like large public and
private pension funds. It was major factor in being able to do over
$27T in 2001-2008.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Original rhetoric in congress regarding the major purpose of GLBA was
to block new & more efficient competitors in banking ... however
additions added repeal of Glass-Steagall (not major factor in
economic mess, but enables too big to fail, too
big to prosecute, too big to jail and feeling of
immunity from any major consequences).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
When chair of CFTC proposed regulating some of this, the chair was
quickly replaced by the wife of the major senator responsible for
GLBA, while he got legislation added to CFTC modernization that
blocked such regulation. His wife then resigns and become director of
ENRON and on the audit committee (some of the CFTC legislation is
characterized as gift for ENRON).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
disclaimer: In 1999, I was asked to help prevent the coming economic mess by improving the integrity of the supporting documents in securitized mortgages. However, being able to pay for triple-A ratings (also) enables no-down, no-documentation, liar loans; "no-documentation" eliminates issue of supporting document integrity.
In Jan2009, I was asked to HTMLize the Pecora Hearings (30s senate
hearings into '29 crash, resulted in criminal convictions and
Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal HREFs and URLs between
what happened this time and what happened then (comments that the new
congress might have an appetite to do something). I work on it for
awhile and then get a call that it won't be needed after all
(reference to enormous mountains of wallstreet cash totally burying
capital hill).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Last decade, we drove down to southern florida and stayed in west palm beach. We were sitting on sidewalk outside Starbucks in new development ... that had shops on the ground floor and three floors of condos above. We watched real-estate agents conducting tours of 12-24 people groups up&down several block area (looked like tourist tour groups). Local papers were talking about teachers and janitors buying 3-4 condos each, with no-down, no-documentation, interest-only, liar loans. They were being told that baby boomers were retiring, selling their mcmansions and descending on florida with huge bags of money
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War Date: 12 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookJohn Foster Dulles played major role in rebuilding Germany's economy and military during 20s&30s, "The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War"
loc865-68:
In mid-1931 a consortium of American banks, eager to safeguard their
investments in Germany, persuaded the German government to accept a
loan of nearly $500 million to prevent default. Foster was their
agent. His ties to the German government tightened after Hitler took
power at the beginning of 1933 and appointed Foster's old friend
Hjalmar Schacht as minister of economics.
loc873-79:
Sullivan & Cromwell floated the first American bonds issued by the
giant German steelmaker and arms manufacturer Krupp A.G., extended
I.G. Farben's global reach, and fought successfully to block Canada's
effort to restrict the export of steel to German arms makers.
loc905-7:
Foster was stunned by his brother's suggestion that Sullivan &
Cromwell quit Germany. Many of his clients with interests there,
including not just banks but corporations like Standard Oil and
General Electric, wished Sullivan & Cromwell to remain active
regardless of political conditions.
loc938-40:
At least one other senior partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, Eustace
Seligman, was equally disturbed. In October 1939, six weeks after the
Nazi invasion of Poland, he took the extraordinary step of sending
Foster a formal memorandum disavowing what his old friend was saying
about Nazism
... snip ...
trivia: from the law of unintended consequences, when the 1943 US Strategic Bombing Program needed locations of German industrial and military targets, they got the German target location information from wallstreet.
June1940, Germany had a victory celebration at the NYC Waldorf-Astoria
with major industrialists. Lots of them were there to hear how to do
business with the Nazis, Intrepid,
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Called-Intrepid-Incredible-Narrative/dp/B00V9QVE5O/
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 ...
Note that Stalin was worried that he would have to deal with two-front
war if Japan attacked also, in order to divert Japan's attention, they
sent draft demands to their agent, deputy SECTREAS Harry Dexter White:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_note#Interpretations
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 ...
recent posts mentioning john foster dulles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#38 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#86 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#39 Failure as a Way of Life; The logic of lost wars and military-industrial boondoggles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#49 Corporate malfeasance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#64 Isolationism and War Profiteering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#75 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#77 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#78 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#79 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#80 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#91 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#11 Study: Cost of U.S. Regulations Larger Than Germany's Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#49 Fateful Choices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#88 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#27 British socialism / anti-trust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#56 "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#64 Strategic Bombing
other posts mentioning hull note &/or harry dexter white
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#39 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#74 Qbasic
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud Date: 13 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
loc3267-68:
Mortgage fraud meant something very particular to law enforcement:
individual borrowers lying on their applications to acquire home
loans, or scam artists ripping off homeowners with false promises
about mortgage modifications.
... snip ...
and a little background:
Obama's FBI Channels the Tea Party -- Partner with the Banks and Blame
the Poor for the Crisis
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/bill-black-obamas-fbi-channels-the-tea-party-partner-with-the-banks-and-blame-the-poor-for-the-crisis.html
This column discusses the more consequential and damaging product of
the FBI/MBA partnership. The MBA presented a definition of "mortgage
fraud" under which the bank is always the innocent victim and never a
perpetrator. Because the FBI and DOJ did not draw on the banking
regulators' expertise due to the death of criminal referrals by the
agencies the FBI fell for the MBA con.
... snip ...
as the bubble was crashing, CBS 60mins had segment on MBA (mortgage bankers association) ... MBA had press articles telling home owners to not walk away from their underwater mortgages ... but MBA was hard to find, they had disappeared from their new hdqtrs bldg (across the street from IMF & world bank) and defaulted on their mortgage.
triva: earlier we had attended some financial standards meetings that MBA hosted (at their new hdqtrs bldg) ... focused on giving digital signatures legal standing on mortgage documents (possibly helping address MERS?). disclaimer: we had previously been brought in to help word smith the Cal. state electronic signature legislation.
electronic signature posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
somewhat related posts on toxic CDOs (securitized mortgages/loans)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
past posts mentioning FBI & mortgage fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#63 SEC: Taking on Big Firms is 'Tempting,' But We Prefer Picking on Little Guys
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#64 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#76 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#36 The Incredible Con the Banksters Pulled on the FBI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#52 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#15 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#64 Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing charges
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#69 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#97 Australia: Haven for Bank Control Frauds?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#40 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#95 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud Date: 13 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
Team B posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
Rumsfeld white house chief of staff (74-75), after replacing CIA
director he becomes SECDEF (75-77), and replaced by his assistant,
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" member (note "Team B" was also involved in supporting
Iran/Iraq war)
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 ...
VP (and former director of CIA) claims no knowledge of
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
another family member presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis (which had 1000 criminal convictions & jailtime), proportionally there should have been 70,000 criminal convictions (with jailtimes), so far nobody has even been charged.
too big to fail post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 14 Oct 2016 08:52:56 -0700sipples@SG.IBM.COM (Timothy Sipples) writes:
trivia: general manager of the sun business group responsible for java had formally been at IBM Los Gatos lab ... and one of two people responsible for the original mainframe pascal (I got invited to the JAVA announce).
In the early 90s, object language were all the rage and (at least) both Apple and Sun were doing new operating systems (Apple's Pink and Sun's SPRING).
Before SUN abandoned SPRING, I was asked if I would be interested in
coming onboard and bringing SPRING to commercial quality for release
(I did some review and then declined). Note the SPRING and GREEN
(JAVA) people claimed that there was no overlap between the two
... although from SPRING: A Client-Side Stub Interpreter
We have built a research operating system in which all services are
presented through interfaces described by an interface description
language. The system consists of a micro-kernel that supports a small
number of these interfaces, and a large number of interfaces that are
implemented by user-level code. A typical service implements one or
more interfaces, but is a client of many other interfaces that are
implemented elsewhere in the system. We have an interface compiler
that generates client-side and service-side stubs to deliver calls
from clients to services providing location transparency if the client
and server are in different address spaces. The code for client-side
stubs was occupying a large amount of the text space on our clients,
so a stub interpreter was written to replace the client-side stub
methods. The result was that we traded 125k bytes of stub code for 13k
bytes of stub descriptions and 4k bytes of stub interpreter. This
paper describes the stub interpreter, the stub descriptions, and
discusses some alternatives.
... snip ...
past refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#32 Whom Do Programmers Admire Now???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#51 A Speculative question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#69 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#46 Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#60 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#80 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#18 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#94 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#71 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#85 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#39 Resistance to Java
note that I've periodically claimed that the father of 801/RISC had gone
to the opposite extreme of the (failed) Future System effort.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
In the late 70s, there was an effort to replace a myriad of internal
IBM microprocessors all, with 801/RISC (Iliad) ... controlers, low &
mid-range 370, AS/400 (follow-on to S/38). The 4361 & 4381 (follow-on
to 4331 and 4341) were originally going to be Iliad
microprocessors. For the 4361/4381 Iliad, they were looking in
addition to straight interpreting 370 (like early generations of 360 &
370), a JIT (just-in-time) compiler that took snipets of 370->801. In
the early 70s, I had written a PLI program that analyzed 370 assembler
programs, creating a high-level abstraction of the instructions and
program flow ... and got asked to spend some time talking to the
Iliad/JIT people. Note for various reasons, these Iliad efforts failed
and all reverted to doing traditional CISC processors (and some of the
RISC/801 engineers leave and start showing up at other companies
working on RISC efforts).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
In the late 80s some 370 emulation efforts started which morph into Hercules and other offerings. At least one of the commercial 370 emulator offerings implemented JIT (370->native) on-the-fly (for intel & sparc) for high-use 370 code snippets.
During the 90s, there was a lot about the RISC throughput performance advantage over I86. However, starting about two decades ago, I86 processor implementations started doing hardware translation of I86 instructions to series of risc micro-ops for actual execution ... which has contributed to largely closing the throughput difference between I86 and RISC processors.
past posts about PLI program that did 370 program analysis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#12 360 "OS" & "TSS" assemblers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#41 Domainatrix - the final word
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#36 Assembly language formatting on IBM systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#8 "Clean" CISC (was Re: McKinley Cometh...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#21 REXX still going strong after 25 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#36 Vintage computers are better than modern crap !
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#35 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#16 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#72 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#52 Where should the type information be?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#45 IBM's POWER6
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#32 transputers again was: The demise of Commodore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#1 Greatest Software Ever Written?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#24 A Day For Surprises (Astounding Itanium Tricks)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#53 Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#31 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#32 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#41 Is this true? (Were gotos really *that* bad?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#21 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#35 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#64 IBM System/360 DOS still going strong as Z/VSE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#48 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#57 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#30 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#43 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#32 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#65 You know you've been Lisp hacking to long when
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#37 Language first, hardware second
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#49 "How do you feel about 'gotos'"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#69 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#24 You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#25 Is it a lost cause?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud Date: 14 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
note that the head of SEC last decade is #4 on Time's list of those responsible for the economic mess, there was lots of objection when the current SEC head was nominated.
The SEC Fiddles While the System Burns: Insider Trading Enforcement As Securities Law Theater
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/10/the-sec-fiddles-while-the-system-burns-insider-trading-enforcement-as-securities-law-theater.html
Liz Warren Demands Obama Fire SEC Chief Over Political Donation Disclosures
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-14/liz-warren-demands-obama-fire-sec-chief-over-political-donation-disclosures
Rhetoric in congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future
ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors did
jailtime. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing
anything last decade, they started doing reports of public company
fraudulent financial reports, even showing uptic after SOX goes into
effect (and nobody doing jail time). Less well known is that SOX also
has SEC doing something about the rating agencies (that played pivotal
role in the economic mess), but SEC did about as much about them as
the fraudulent financial reporting.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
other trivia, congressional hearings into Madoff had the person that
tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about
Madoff (SEC's hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
past posts mentioning current head of SEC
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/2013.html#68 Choice of Mary Jo White to Head SEC Puts Fox In Charge of Hen House
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#18 Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story Of The Scientific Betting System That Beat The Casinos And Wall Street
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#28 Senator Sherrod Brown Drops a Bombshell in Mary Jo White's Hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#42 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#49 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#17 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#107 The SEC's Mary Jo White Punts on High Frequency Trading and Abandons Securities Act of 1934
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#109 SEC Caught Dark Pool and High Speed Traders Doing Bad Stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#41 New York's Benjamin Lawksy and the SEC's Kara Stein and Luis Aguilar Push for Tougher Sanctions Against Bank Executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#81 Stanford Law School Covers Up SEC's Andrew Bowden's Embarrassing Remarks by Deep-Sixing Conference Video
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/2015e.html#58 Time to Fire Mary Jo White: SEC Covers Up for Bank Capital Accounting Scam Promoted by Her Former Firm, Debevoise
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#87 Calls for SEC Chair's Replacement Grow Louder in DC
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Internet started in the US, then it was privatized Date: 14 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookThe Internet started in the US, then it was privatized
early 80s we were working with NSF director and were suppose to get
$20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
Then congress cuts the budget, some other things happen and finally an
RFP is released (in part based on what we already had
running). Internal politics prevent us from bidding. The NSF director
tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other gov. agencies but that just makes the internal politics worse (as does
comments that what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead of
all RFP responses). As regional networks connect in, it grows into the
NSFNET backbone (precursor to modern internet).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
Late 80s, FEDs want everything to convert to GOSIP and eliminate
TCP/IP. At Interop '88 a good number of the booths were demonstrating
various GOSIP support.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#interop88
The TELCO industry had large fixed costs funded by usage charges and they were in chicken&egg situation; to encourage new generation of high-bandwidth applications they had to drastically reduce usage charges, but it would take years for the new generation high-bandwidth applications, years while they operated at a loss. The folklore is that industry actually provided resources 4-5 times bandwidth of the winning RFP response with restriction that it couldn't be used for commercial purposes ... this provided the technology incubator for the new generation of high-bandwidth applications (w/o impacting their revenue).
Trivia: the original RFP called for T1 links (in part because that is what we already had running). The winning RFP actually installed 440kbit links and then to somewhat look like they were meeting the RFP, they installed T1 trunks with telco multiplexors, running multiple 440kbit links over the T1 trunks. We would periodically ridicule that they could call it a T5 network, since some of those T1 trunks were multiplexed over T5 trunks.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: D.C. Hivemind Mulls How Clinton Can Pass Huge Corporate Tax Cut Date: 15 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookD.C. Hivemind Mulls How Clinton Can Pass Huge Corporate Tax Cut
poster-child is large equipment maker, builds in the US, and ships to
customers in the US. It then created "distributor" subsidiary in tax
haven; books are cooked so that wholesale to distributor subsidiary at
cost, which then sells to customers in the US (still delivers directly
to customer in US), so all profit is booked in tax haven.
http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks
tax fraud, tax evasion, tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
They can even cook the books so that the US operations show a loss,
declare bankruptcy and dump the employee pension obligations on the
federal gov (even while the parent company shows substantial profit)
http://www.pbgc.gov
Note congress allows Fiscal Responsibility Act (required spending not exceed tax revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal debt) to expire in 2002. In 2010, CBO did report that since the act expired, tax revenue was cut $6T and spending increased $6T for $12T budget gap (compared to fiscal responsible budget), first time taxes were cut to not pay for two wars.
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
In the middle of last decade, US Comptroller General was including in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school math for how badly they were savaging the budget. Since then taxes have not been restored and little cuts in spending, so deficit continues to grow.
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud Date: 15 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
loc4421-4425:
Stoller went on to explain his skepticism about Attorney General Eric
Holder and the head of the Criminal Division, Lanny Breuer. Both had
worked as corporate lawyers for Covington & Burling, which not only
represented every major bank but provided the legal opinions that
created MERS.
loc5243-47:
Banks had been caught red-handed submitting false documents to courts,
with millions of documented examples, and law enforcement treated it
like a man catching a too-puny fish and throwing it back. No one
bothered to investigate the misconduct, instead charging banks $2,000
for every family they threw into chaos and leaving it at that. That
evidence would be unusable in future cases; Nevada couldn't go up the
food chain from LPS and nail servicers for fraudulent documents.
Ongoing foreclosure fraud using previously submitted forgeries and
fabrications would be effectively legalized, or at least beyond the
reach of state and federal prosecutors.
... snip ...
And the Award for Best Financial Crisis Book ...
https://baselinescenario.com/2016/08/02/and-the-award-for-best-financial-crisis-book/
The substance of the argument has been well known for years, so I'll
try to pack it into one sentence: The banks creating mortgage-backed
securities failed to properly transfer notes (the documents proving a
borrower's obligation) to the trusts that issued the MBS, so not only
was the securitization itself faulty, but the trust did not have legal
standing to foreclose on homeowners--so the banks paid third-party
companies to forge the required paper trail, and lawyers knowingly
submitted fraudulent evidence to courts, who usually accepted it.
... snip ...
past posts mentioning holder and/or breuer:
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/2013b.html#0 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#1 Libor Lies Revealed in Rigging of $300 Trillion Benchmark
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#9 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#94 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#97 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/2013k.html#14 What Makes Infrastructure investment not bizarre
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#22 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#17 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#26 JPMorgan Sued For Crony Justice - Presenting "A Decade of Illegal Conduct by JP Morgan Chase"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#27 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#101 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#1 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#92 How Much Does It Cost To Keep JPMorgan FX-Riggers Out Of Jail?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#153 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#6 SEC's Andrew Bowden Regulatory Capture Scandal Hits the Major Leagues with Los Angeles Times Column
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#19 Have the Banks Escaped Criminal Prosecution because They're Spying Surrogates?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#23 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#29 Eric Holder Returns as Hero to Law Firm That Lobbies for Big Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#36 Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
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#64 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#30 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#46 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#49 seveneves
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#4 Decimal point character and billions
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#10 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#11 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#22 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#0 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#25 SS Trust Fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#73 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#16 There Is Regulatory Capture, But It Is By No Means Complete
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#53 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#75 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#88 Goldman Slammed With $5.1 Billion Fine For "Serious Misconduct" In Mortgage Selling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#1 Why Is the Obama Administration Trying to Keep 11,000 Documents Sealed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#29 Eric Holder's Longtime Excuse for Not Prosecuting Banks Just Crashed and Burned
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#79 And the Award for Best Financial Crisis Book
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud Date: 15 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
see "no bid" below
Only the last 100hrs of 42day Desert Storm (Iraq1) was land war. Several accounts of Iraq1 tank battles with coalition forces taking no damage, don't mentioning if the Iraqi tanks had anybody home.
From GAO desert storm air power report,
http://www.gao.gov/products/NSIAD-97-134
has the desert storm air campaign so effective that Iraqis were
walking away from their tanks (as sitting ducks). Combat engineers
were across the berms in bradleys three days before the landwar
started and 50miles into enemy territory, seeing enemy tanks on the
horizon but no enemy fire. One of Boyd's acolytes writes a book about
his experiences ... HBO turns into (dramatized) movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
A10 fires 1M 30MM DU rounds in desert storm that burton had gotten down to $13/round ... or cost $13M. Burton then suggests doing a mini-A10 with 5 barrel gun that is simple enough that can be forward deployed and maintained (these days would more likely be a drone). Note Burton had been in the first graduating class from Air Force academy and on fast track to General, when he says Boyd destroyed his career by challenging him to do what was right.
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
early 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 (published in 2010) about
providing the evidence to her cousin and others, then getting locked
up in Texas military hospital
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
The decommissioned WMDs (tracing back to US and Iran/Iraq war) were
found early in the Iraq2 invasion, but the information was classified
for 10years, finally released in 2014, substantiated Card's cousins
evidence.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/iraqs-disclosure-of-chemical-weapons-findings-to-un.html
WMDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
Note military-industrial complex wanted the Iraq2 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). From the law of unintended consequences, invaders were told to
bypass ammo dumps looking for the fabricated WMDs ... later when they
got around to going back, over million metric tons had evaporated.
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
In Vietnam US relied heavily on heavy artillery and air power. This
was greatly refined Desert Storm where US Air Power dominated the
field. Assertions are that Iraq had learned from Desert Storm and
changed tactics to minimize targets for US Air Power. Then large
artillery shells start showing up in IEDs including taking out Abram
tanks (large artillery shells were adapted to IEDs rather than large
guns and tanks). This account has Abram's so vulnerable that they took
to running the route before taking Abrams out (also 2007-2008 worse
than Fallujah 2004-2005, but didn't get coverage because
administration said things were better)
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Baqubah-Killing-Our-Way-ebook/dp/B007VBBS9I/
Part of original Iraq2 justification was that it would *only* cost $50B ... assuming advances in air power would be even more effective than Desert Storm ... however it didn't work out that way. Two wars are now projected to exceed $5T (over 100 times more) when long term veterans benefits are taken into account.
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/
The Clausewitz Roundtable
https://www.amazon.com/Clausewitz-Roundtable-Michael-J-Lotus-ebook/dp/B01KCX0G4Y/
loc3772-75:
To select just one inexcusable failure, Secretary of DEFENSE Donald
Rumsfeld was determined to use a relatively small force to execute the
war, believing correctly that the goal of destroying the Iraqi army
could be achieved in this fashion, and that using a relatively smaller
force was otherwise advantageous. However, this approach was totally
at odds with the further, ill-considered war aim of "transforming"
Iraq into a democratic ally. This aim was delusional and should never
have been a policy of the American government.
... snip ...
As an aside, written in 1920s about 1911-1914 ... Churchill explains
steps leading to the mess in the middle east ... started with planning
to move from 13.5in to 15in guns; loc2012-14:
From the beginning there appeared a ship carrying ten 15-inch guns,
and therefore at least 600 feet long with room inside her for engines
which would drive her 21 knots and capacity to carry armour which on
the armoured belt, the turrets and the conning tower would reach the
thickness unprecedented in the British Service of 13 inches.
loc2080-83:
For instance, nearly a hundred men were continually occupied in the
Lion shovelling coal from one steel chamber to another without ever
seeing the light either of day or of the furnace fires. The use of oil
made it possible in every type of vessel to have more gun-power and
more speed for less size or less cost. It alone made it possible to
realize the high speeds in certain types which were vital to their
tactical purpose. All these advantages were obtained simply by burning
oil instead of coal under the boilers.
loc2087-89:
To build any large additional number of oil-burning ships meant basing
our naval supremacy upon oil. But oil was not found in appreciable
quantities in our islands. If we required it, we must carry it by sea
in peace or war from distant countries.
loc2123-24:
An unbroken series of consequences conducted us to the Anglo-Persian
Oil Convention.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud Date: 15 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookNetwork science shows London is at the heart of the world's corporate elite
Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax
Havens; "City of London" (corporations are human and have vote),
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 ...
tax evasion, tax fraud, tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia Date: 16 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookHow to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia
Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb; Got to get
educated before we can defeat Internet threats
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/30a00a8d29ad
We are cyberdumb. Opponents have danced through our networks several
times extracting detailed designs for advanced weapon systems
(including radar & stealth). some of this went on for years before it
was discovered
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/confidential-report-lists-us-weapons-system-designs-compromised-by-chinese-cyberspies/2013/05/27/a42c3e1c-c2dd-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
other references
The Feds Have Let the Cyber World Burn. Let's Put the Fire Out
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/feds-let-cyber-world-burn-lets-put-fire/
NSA asks Silicon Valley to help fight cybercrime, terrorism
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3040175/security/nsa-asks-silicon-valley-to-help-fight-cybercrime-terrorism.html
Bruce Schneier: We're sleepwalking towards digital disaster and are
too dumb to stop; Coders and tech bros playing chance with the future
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/02/sleepwalking_towards_digital_disaster/
the alternative scenario is that beltway bandits earning hundreds of
billions and trillions can't be that incompetent ... but are doing it
on purpose, related Success of Failure (mostly repeated failures of
dataprocessing modernization efforts)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
the perpetual war scenario, would have leaking information done on
purpose rather than from total incompetence
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia Date: 16 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
is Harvard responsible for the rise of Putin?, ... they sent over
people to demonstrate how capitalism loots a country: 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
If you are unfamiliar with this fiasco, which was also the true
proximate cause of Larry Summers' ouster from Harvard, you must read
an extraordinary expose, How Harvard Lost Russia, from Institutional
Investor. I am told copies of this article were stuffed in every
Harvard faculty member's inbox the day Summers got a vote of no
confidence and resigned shortly thereafter.
... snip ...
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
Mostly, they hurt Russia and its hopes of establishing a lasting
framework for a stable Western-style capitalism, as Summers himself
acknowledged when he testified under oath in the U.S. lawsuit in
Cambridge in 2002. "The project was of enormous value," said Summers,
who by then had been installed as the president of Harvard. "Its
cessation was damaging to Russian economic reform and to the
U.S.-Russian relationship."
... snip ...
and Russian Military Politics and Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1050
recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#16 1970--protesters seize computer center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#39 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#73 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#31 Putin holds phone call with Obama, urges better defense cooperation in fight against ISIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#39 Failure as a Way of Life; The logic of lost wars and military-industrial boondoggles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#7 Why was no one prosecuted for contributing to the financial crisis? New documents reveal why
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#69 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#59 How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#22 US and UK have staged coups before
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia Date: 16 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
There were battles with gov. agencies all through the ages about how much cyber-security. It was in the 80s, I realized that there are 3 kinds of crypto. I was involved in doing crypto that was ten times better and small fraction of the cost. I was then told I could make as many as I wanted, but they all had to be shipped to address in Maryland ... aka 1) there is crypto they don't care about, 2) there is crypto you can't do, and 3) there is crypto you can only do for them.
more recently it is huge uptic in outsourcing last decade ... 70% of
the budget and over half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
past posts mentioning three kinds crypto
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#57 RealNames hacked. Firewall issues.
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/2008j.html#43 What is "timesharing" (Re: OS X Finder windows vs terminal window weirdness)
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/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/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/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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#101 Internal Network, NSFNET, Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#40 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#31 How the internet was invented
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia Date: 17 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
1) long ago and far away we were brought in as consultants to small client/server startup that wanted to do payments on their server; they had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now sometimes called "electronic commerce". I had complete authority over server to payment gateway (which haven't been known to have exploits) ... but could only make recommendations on the client/server part ... which were almost immediately violated ... continue to account for some number of exploits that continue to this day.
some SSL related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcert
2) we were tangentially involved in the (Cal, original) data breach notification act, having been brought in to help wordsmith the cal. state electronic signature act. Some were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done extensive public surveys. The #1 issue was identity theft, notably fraudulent financial transactions as the result of breaches. The issue is normally entities take security measures in self protection ... in the case of breaches, it wasn't the institutions at risk, it was the public. It was hoped that the publicity from the breaches would motivate security measures
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia Date: 17 Oct 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
3) somewhat having done "electronic commerce" we were asked to participate in 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 exploit and vulnerability studies of all kinds of retail payments. We didn't do anything directly about breaches or evesdropping, we write a standard that slightly tweaked the current infrastructure and eliminated the ability of the crooks to use information from previous transactions for fraudulent transactions (eliminated the primary motivation for breaches and need for "SSL", a variation on "replay" attack, enormously reducing the attack surface). The agency was quite ambivalent, the transactions no longer needed encryption to hide details as countermeasure to fraud, but they were also anonymous. (it was intended for world/ISO standard and at the time the EU had data protection act which included electronic transactions were suppose to be as anonymous as cash). The major problem was that it significantly reduced barriers to entry in payment industry .. this is in time-frame of GLBA, rhetoric on the floor of congress was that the primary purpose of GLBA (now better known for repeal of Glass-Steagall) was to keep new competition out of banking.
refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
Glass-Steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
I started using security proportional to risk to describe the current paradigm, the value of transaction information to the merchant is the profit ... which can be a few dollars, while the value to the criminal is the credit limit &/or account balance. As a result the crooks may be able to outspend attacking by orders of magnitude (compared to what merchants can spend defending).
security proportional to risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
also, dual use threat, in the current paradigm, the information necessary for the crook to make a fraudulent transaction ... is also required in the standard transaction business processes at millions of location around the world; as a result the information is both/simultaneously a) needed to be readily available and b) kept confidential and never divulged. As a result, we've commented that even if the planet was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't prevent leaks.
and dual use posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm22.htm#2 GP4.3 - Growth and Fraud - Case #3 - Phishing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004i.html#17 New Method for Authenticated Public Key Exchange without Digital Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#52 PGP Lame question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#45 U.S. agents 'got lucky' pursuing accused Russia master hackers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#46 Feds indict indentity theft ring
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#12 How the IETF plans to protect the web from NSA snooping
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#102 How the IETF plans to protect the web from NSA snooping
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Airlines Reservation Systems Date: 17 Oct 2016 Blog: FacebookIn the mid-90s, was brought into the largest airline reservation system to look at the ten impossible things they couldn't do. They started out with ROUTES and gave me a copy of the complete OAG tape. I went away and came back with implementation two months later that did all ten impossible things. Big part of the issue was that what they were running was paradigm from the 60s based on technology trade-offs from that period. I started from scratch based on 90s technologies trade-offs. The 60s paradigm had huge numbers of people prep'ing data (which also accounted for some of the ten impossible things). With the 90s paradigm, it did all ten impossible things ... also eliminated all those manual operations.
They then started wringing there hands ... and finally said that they hadn't intended that I did it ... they just wanted to be able to tell the parent board that I was working on it (for the next 5yrs, apparently I was known to one of the board members when they had been executive at STL lab many years before). The airline res executive had these large number of people doing the manual operations ... and he would be obsoleted with them.
Note they had organized the books so that all the profit was booked in the reservation system. At the time, the airline operations was having substantial losses, but the parent company had substantial profit (profit from the reservation system more than offset the operation losses). This was apparently an advantage in dealing with unions in airline operations.
Started seeing in the 80s, more large corporations setting up parent
company with subsidiaries, revenue from subsidiary with majority of
people (like manufacturing or airlines) is moved to subsidiary with
very few people. In some cases, it shows subsidiary with lots of
people operating at a loss, declare bankruptcy and dump pension plans
on the federal gov. (while parent is making profit from subsidiary
where most of profit is booked). More recent, they've been moving the
subsidiary with the profit to offshore tax haven. Poster child is
large company that manufacturers in the US and sells to customers in
the US. They then create a "distributor" subsidiary (that is nothing
more than shoebox) in off-share tax haven, equipment is "transferred"
to distributor books at cost and then sold to US customers and shipped
to US customers (but all the profit is booked in the tax haven). some
refs:
http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks
tax havens, tax evasion, tax fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
misc. past posts mentioning airline res systems and/or ROUTES
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#17 Old Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#100 Why won't the AS/400 die? Or, It's 1999 why do I have to learn how to use
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#103 IBM 9020 computers used by FAA (was Re: EPO stories (was: HELP IT'S HOT!!!!!))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#136a checks (was S/390 on PowerPC?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#20 Competitors to SABRE?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#26 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/2001g.html#45 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#49 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#17 I hate Compaq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#0 TSS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#3 News IBM loses supercomputer crown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#2 Computers in Science Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#3 Why are Mainframe Computers really still in use at all?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#12 Why did OSI fail compared with TCP-IP?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#43 IBM doing anything for 50th Anniv?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#83 HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#83 Summary: Robots of Doom
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#67 Tweaking old computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#48 InfiniBand Group Sharply, Evenly Divided
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#30 difference between itanium and alpha
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#67 unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#3 Ping: Anne & Lynn Wheeler
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/2004e.html#44 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#58 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#14 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#6 Xah Lee's Unixism
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/2004p.html#26 IBM 3614 and 3624 ATM's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#85 The TransRelational Model: Performance Concerns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#22 The Soul of Barb's New Machine (was Re: creat)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#41 something like a CTC on a PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#67 intel's Vanderpool and virtualization in general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#47 Using the Cache to Change the Width of Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#22 System/360; Hardwired vs. Microcoded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#44 What was new&important in computer architecture 10 years ago ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#44 Intel engineer discusses their dual-core design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#7 HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#5 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#6 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#9 Arpa address
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#4 How Many 360/195s and 370/195s were shipped?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#18 RAMAC 305(?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#18 50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#52 US Air computers delay psgrs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#22 Bidirectional Binary Self-Joins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#41 US Airways badmouths legacy system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#41 Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#28 Even worse than UNIX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#72 The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#8 nouns and adjectives
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/2008j.html#32 CLIs and GUIs
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/2009l.html#66 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#59 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#73 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#74 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#80 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#19 Processes' memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#52 Article says mainframe most cost-efficient platform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#42 IBM 3883 Manuals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#16 Sabre Talk Information?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#81 Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#17 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#42 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
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/2011e.html#8 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#77 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#35 Last Word on Dennis Ritchie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#92 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#8 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#70 Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#7 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#23 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#50 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#16 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#59 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#13 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#1 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#7 From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#52 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#65 Linear search vs. Binary search
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#87 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#0 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#20 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#10 Can the mainframe remain relevant in the cloud and mobile era?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#54 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#101 Costs of core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#53 transactions, was There Is Still Hope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#84 History--error checking in Baudot (5 bit) transmissions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#34 50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
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#54 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#57 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#58 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#69 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#107 crash, restart, and all that, was Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#84 ACP/TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#5 Can you have a robust IT system that needs experts to run it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#117 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#58 Man Versus System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#93 Delta Outage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#98 E.R. Burroughs
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