I get a forum summary report from Wingware (python IDE) daily and nearly every single one is flagged as a phishing attempt. It frequently is a short list of two or three posts to their forum, just the titles with no significant content. I have reported it as non-phishing message every single time but that seems to do nothing at all despite the pop-up messages that are displayed.
I was reflecting tonight on the NSA debacle and was thinking back on my own career. I am retired now but worked for a company (actually several companies but MY position never changed, they just kept changing the sign on the building ...) that built surveillance satellites for the NRO. Of course we couldn't even say "N R O" at the time but that bubble has burst long ago. We also had contact with another agency with a similar acronym although we were mostly optical "R" when we dealt with that other agency.
You may have heard of Corona which has been declassified and actually installed in the Air and Space Museum. It was really freaky to go see it as when I was working on the follow-on program Corona was a "naughty word" never to be mentioned. I don't think I can mention our program (but a simple search can reveal it) yet but it, too, was optical. But at the same time we had several other programs which were trying to integrate optical surveillance with "SigInt" (Signal Intelligence) and although we did not use those technologies we did work with people who did.
So even back in the early 1980's the focus in the Intel community was on advancing spying on every part that could be spied on. That it has gone as far as it has in the past 30 years in no surprise at all to me. It is a pattern that has its roots way back in time.
I don't know that you can use any of my musings. It matters little in the current scheme of things. But I thought you might like to hear of a retired "spy" who actively worked these programs that I think it has gone too far by leagues. What disturbs me most is the feeling of entitlement that these people seem to feel. It's "because I can therefore I WILL" that bothers me. Distresses me. There seems to be no Right or Wrong evaluation here. At all.
Thanks for the ePub versions. Please let us know when they are out. PDF on my iPad is OK but you van't adjust the type size. Converting from PDF to ePub is only OK, it's not perfect yet.
Back in the roaring 60's my brand new wife and I were fed f'ing up with the US of A. The gom'nt was f'ing everything up, we had the "war" (Viet Nam), Nixon/Watergate, and we just figured we would emigrate to Australia which had a bounty of computer techs. We didn't go. But it is looking really good about now!
For the world that isn't run by lawyers, and we get to talk about that here a lot, it's a world run by accountants. And if they find something they can count easily they will grab it, stuff it into a spreadsheet and you'll pay hell trying to convince them that it's meaningless. Meaning is for Engineers and Designers and such. Just like But, But, Piracy! It's But, But, Numbers!
Hmmm, I don't think Mike spelled "Slimy" at all. He is Slimy, of course, and will spell it correctly if required to at a Congressional Hearing or some such but I don't think, at this point, that he has been required to provide a spelling of the word so far.
He is, of course, my Favorite "Slimy Troll" and my comment was meant to amuse rather than an actual, intended insult.
This has been te MOST surreal discussion on ANY blog that I have read. Most of the folks commenting here, on EITHER side of the "issue" have to be doing serious drugs, downers, uppers, whatever.
Mike, does this qualify for some sort of record? Wow. I'm completely under/over whelmed with the hyperbole exhibited here.
When I first read this post it barely caught my interest. I am always interested in when the people I follow get mentioned in high (moderate?) profile cases. But really looked to be a non-issue.
Never overlook the capacity for the extremists to, well, be extreme!
Thank you all for the vicarious pleasure of wallowing in your extremism. I never could have experienced it without you!
You "may" be aware that if you make too much of a "big deal" about this then there is an Effect named after a certain popular singer that I am pretty sure you are aware of. Come to think of it, it may already be in effect at some level As We Speak. ;-)
False phishing flags
I get a forum summary report from Wingware (python IDE) daily and nearly every single one is flagged as a phishing attempt. It frequently is a short list of two or three posts to their forum, just the titles with no significant content. I have reported it as non-phishing message every single time but that seems to do nothing at all despite the pop-up messages that are displayed.
It's not new people!
I was reflecting tonight on the NSA debacle and was thinking back on my own career. I am retired now but worked for a company (actually several companies but MY position never changed, they just kept changing the sign on the building ...) that built surveillance satellites for the NRO. Of course we couldn't even say "N R O" at the time but that bubble has burst long ago. We also had contact with another agency with a similar acronym although we were mostly optical "R" when we dealt with that other agency.
You may have heard of Corona which has been declassified and actually installed in the Air and Space Museum. It was really freaky to go see it as when I was working on the follow-on program Corona was a "naughty word" never to be mentioned. I don't think I can mention our program (but a simple search can reveal it) yet but it, too, was optical. But at the same time we had several other programs which were trying to integrate optical surveillance with "SigInt" (Signal Intelligence) and although we did not use those technologies we did work with people who did.
So even back in the early 1980's the focus in the Intel community was on advancing spying on every part that could be spied on. That it has gone as far as it has in the past 30 years in no surprise at all to me. It is a pattern that has its roots way back in time.
I don't know that you can use any of my musings. It matters little in the current scheme of things. But I thought you might like to hear of a retired "spy" who actively worked these programs that I think it has gone too far by leagues. What disturbs me most is the feeling of entitlement that these people seem to feel. It's "because I can therefore I WILL" that bothers me. Distresses me. There seems to be no Right or Wrong evaluation here. At all.
Distressing ...
Can't wait!
Maybe this could be serialized into an afternoon soap? I'd watch!
ePub!
Thanks for the ePub versions. Please let us know when they are out. PDF on my iPad is OK but you van't adjust the type size. Converting from PDF to ePub is only OK, it's not perfect yet.
Re: petard hoisting
Would that others could get the news that this is not acceptable.
Too soon I'm afraid. We have several years of this craziness before sanity prevails ... patience Grasshopper.
Not in my iTunes store ...
Maybe I missed it but I see a $4.99 price in iTunes. Maybe someone "convinced" them that less than a buck was whatch'ya call a 'bad idear?'
Wow, 60's all over again
Back in the roaring 60's my brand new wife and I were fed f'ing up with the US of A. The gom'nt was f'ing everything up, we had the "war" (Viet Nam), Nixon/Watergate, and we just figured we would emigrate to Australia which had a bounty of computer techs. We didn't go. But it is looking really good about now!
For the world that isn't run by lawyers, and we get to talk about that here a lot, it's a world run by accountants. And if they find something they can count easily they will grab it, stuff it into a spreadsheet and you'll pay hell trying to convince them that it's meaningless. Meaning is for Engineers and Designers and such. Just like But, But, Piracy! It's But, But, Numbers!
Re: Great, but
Well, I just shared the link to the TechDirt article with my local library. It's a start.
Re:
Wally, I'm not sure how to respond to your question. If it was, in fact, directed to me.
I am passing familiar with MST3K but I don't recall "The Corpes Vanishes" (Does sound interesting, though) ...
Can you provide more detail in your question?
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Captain, I believe we some issues here. Can we have Counselor Troy assigned?
Re: Re: Re: Slimy
Klaatu barada nikto
Or whatever translates to "I'm cool with that" in your language!
Re: Lesson
Hmm, I'm sorry that I don't see the "lesson" that you refer to. Honestly, can you elaborate?
Re: Slimy
Hmmm, I don't think Mike spelled "Slimy" at all. He is Slimy, of course, and will spell it correctly if required to at a Congressional Hearing or some such but I don't think, at this point, that he has been required to provide a spelling of the word so far.
He is, of course, my Favorite "Slimy Troll" and my comment was meant to amuse rather than an actual, intended insult.
Mike, you Slimy Troll. Just gathering views by embedding "BOOBS"?!
Thanks! ;-)
P.S. Is that how you spell Slimy? Should it be Slimey? Enquiring minds want to know!
Dali would be proud!
This has been te MOST surreal discussion on ANY blog that I have read. Most of the folks commenting here, on EITHER side of the "issue" have to be doing serious drugs, downers, uppers, whatever.
Mike, does this qualify for some sort of record? Wow. I'm completely under/over whelmed with the hyperbole exhibited here.
Wow. Just Wow.
Slow news day?
When I first read this post it barely caught my interest. I am always interested in when the people I follow get mentioned in high (moderate?) profile cases. But really looked to be a non-issue.
Never overlook the capacity for the extremists to, well, be extreme!
Thank you all for the vicarious pleasure of wallowing in your extremism. I never could have experienced it without you!
Apple fanboi, tragic results
Yes, I am a big fan of Apple but this is a terrible verdict. I want my chosen platform (and, really, that could be ANY of them) to win on competition.
Careful Mike
You "may" be aware that if you make too much of a "big deal" about this then there is an Effect named after a certain popular singer that I am pretty sure you are aware of. Come to think of it, it may already be in effect at some level As We Speak. ;-)
What if they offered cars?
I bet it would be a Yugo. Ad then they'd say: But it's a CAR! You said you wanted a CAR. You gotta be happy with it.