Its an open, please continue…
but later
forget politics for a minute,
play it loud and enjoy it.
Later Today….Play this really loud!
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Play nice!
I finished the series ‘Sneaky Pete’ on Prime Video last night.
It’s a pretty good series. Giovanni Ribisi is always a good watch.
(If anyone’s looking for a distraction)
We watched “Hillbilly Elegy” last Saturday. I was ready for a lot of stereotypes, and there they were, but I got over it. Not too bad, and the epilogue was an eyeopener.
Fun piece and gorgeous pics
When Usually Solitary Octopuses Get Together, Odd Things Happen
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/octopus-behavior-metazoa?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9c1a54fbf1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_12_16_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-9c1a54fbf1-70779657&mc_cid=9c1a54fbf1&mc_eid=58bb0046dc
The StFU School District Blue Ribbon Renaming Advisory Committee (including *heh* agenda and zoom meetings.
https://www.sfusd.edu/connect/get-involved/advisory-councils-committees/school-renaming-advisory-committee
@ Bunk X:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d6r0J58ZeFq7el3ITvr6HoCfT2jHm6uR/view
That’s one helluva co-morbidity
GRAND COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – The Grand County coroner is calling attention to the way the state health department is classifying some deaths. The coroner, Brenda Bock, says two of their five deaths related to COVID-19 were people who died of gunshot wounds.
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/12/15/grand-county-covid-deaths/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
James Troupis is a lawyer reping Trump. He is testifying at the Senate hearing. He said he was honored to be asked but he’s not niave. There is almost NO law firm in the county that would take his case, not because of the merits but because of the cancel culture
The Amistad people released their report about an hour ago.
The Legitimacy and Effect of Private Funding in Federal and State Electoral Processes
This covers the Zuckersucker grants, etc.
https://got-freedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/HAVA-and-Non-Profit-Organization-Report-FINAL-W-Attachments-and-Preface-121420.pdf
hey y’all
late lunchtime
bowl of chili and tamales with an ice cold dos equis
heaven
@ eaglesoars:
That’s a time honored tradition in killing a virus.
huh
https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/1339231979418628096?s=19
@ darkwords:
HAR!!
rain of lead wrote:
I despise that guy.
FWIW
https://twitter.com/RealMattCouch/status/1339280421490745351
I’ll have a MASSIVE Announcement tonight that we’ve uncovered regarding Dominion Networks & Solar Winds regarding Election Fraud and them Lying under Oath with my good friend American Priority President
@AlexpHSL
Article will be up at http://TheDCPatriot.com when it’s completed by
@AlexpHSL and his team. Then we will go LIVE to discuss on my Periscope and other platforms.
Documentation and Intel is being finalized and put together as we speak.
Ken Owens is one of the owners of Dominion
Ken’s brother is John Owens
John is married to Valerie
Valerie’s maiden name is Biden
Valerie is Joe Biden’s sister
https://twitter.com/ZaeZeon/status/1339285388200914945/photo/1
https://twitter.com/RealMattCouch/status/1339280421490745351
This is too funny. Sound on
https://twitter.com/humorandanimals/status/1338869421306044416
Person of the year.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2020/12/13/fallaciloquencial-hot-links/
Even dogs are getting defrauded.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1339221729483296769
@ eaglesoars:
King of the Jungle stuff. I always think dogs that can stand out like that are way above average.
@ darkwords:
😀
Covid has me distracted. I went to McDonalds got a Cheeseburger and Large Coffee for $2.39 at the drive through. Paid and felt guilty about not wearing a mask. Put it on after a search in the car. Got 5 miles away and realized I drove right past the pickup window and was without caffeine and beef. Covid causes economic depression.
What do people do to keep their metabolism up in the pandemic? I was going to the gym but it closed. I notice I seem cramped and am slowing down. Gained a few pounds. Gonna push back from the table if I can but food is one of the few fun things. lol. I’m aging. Coffee used to be great but now the body says no more after one cuppa.
Google says go get a testosterone shot.
@ darkwords:
Sounds like something I’d do in the past after smoking some ganja.
Also the eating thing.
Are you sure someone’s not feeding you weed?
🙂
Mary Katharine Ham
@mkhammer
·
Dec 15
My husband put a Hulk figurine in the Nativity to hold Jesus and now has the kids low-key convinced Hulk is in the Bible even though they have definitely heard the Gospels sans Hulk, and I’d just like to apologize to the King of Kings for that.
I like MKH. She seems wholesome and smart and capable. But politics are not the same.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
There’s a lot of weed around here. I noticed an odd smell this AM. I thought it was just an electrical fire somewhere.
I watched this segment this morning, but the original was taken down, either by YouTube or FNC itself. Curious…
@ lobo91:
I heard it on the Dan Bongino show.
Soros has been installing local officials that can control ballots and local officials that control crime.
A lot of the riots we see are from Soros inspired prosecutors elected with Soros money. Employed to look the other way and tear down the city they are in. Soros Open Society.
They ARE a national security risk. Trump should roll the dice.
The better half stopped by the grocery store last night. They had packages of KC strip that were at their expiration date. $14.99 a pound, full original price for tonight’s dinner would’ve been $26.23. With the discount card, $13.60 back. We paid $1.99. Total.
There are four more packages in the freezer.
Larkin Poe live just started:
@redsteeze
The second pandemic over Chinese martian space virus is going to be lit
Quote Tweet
@ZekeJMiller
· 6h
BEIJING (AP) — China state media reports lunar probe has returned to Earth carrying moon rocks in breakthrough for space program.
@ right_wing2:
Huge Win. Best I could do today was Beef Jerky 1/2 off at grocery outlet.
I did order these survival meals that last 25 years and they came in the mail today.
@ darkwords:
Soros is probably funding the rioters too.
@ darkwords:
We’ve got about a month worth of those survivable meals too.
Parler app goes insane. People post a lot of references to explosive content. Once you read the article its something recycled, old, and bland. A lot of panic readers on parler and a lot of people creating content for them.
JUST IN – Cybersecurity giant FireEye worked with Microsoft and the domain registrar GoDaddy to take over one of the domains that state-sponsored attackers had used to send malicious code to compromised
@SolarWinds networks. More backdoors detected.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1339352439154208769
And look what they found
Domain name = dominionvotingsystems
Province = Hunan
Country = China
https://twitter.com/BenKTallmadge/status/1339377190631219201
@ darkwords:
YouTube is like that, too. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen videos claiming “Nancy Pelosi’s career ENDED!”
Yet she’s still around…
darkwords wrote:
MK got married again? How the hell did I miss THAT?
Shopping excursion.
1. Support Kids Education – Lottery tickets – Check
2. Support the beef industry in Nebraska. – McDonalds – Check
3. Support the Wisconsin diary industry – Sharp Cheddar – Check
4. Oppose China – Some canned salmon thing made in China – Reshelved it for the owners. Check
5. Support Hawaii – All sugars bought were cane sugar. All Stevia, Sucralose, HFC were reshelved to the Yuck shelf. Check
6. Support Ireland. Whiskey for a rainy day bought. Check.
7. Support the ex. Sent her Christmas Chocolates. Check. No good will come of it. 🙂
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve followed her off and on since LGF I think. She had a pretty cool wedding proposal video on her instagram. Her husband was pretty romantic. Puts the rest of us men to shame.
@ eaglesoars:
If that’s not a smoking gun I don’t know what is. That would mean China was targeting Dominion systems in a serious way. It would probably easy fool a Michigan Governor or Michigan State Attorney General.
@ eaglesoars:
To me that is bigger than the virus by far. The world economy is at risk. Biden will just ignore it. I think Trump should act now on this. Pull these 500 Fortune CEOs that live in the US on the carpet and force them to get their stuff together.
Can’t have any native born or second gen Chinese in IT or R&D in any of these companies. Second Gens are easy recruits. College campuses are loaded with both types.
@ darkwords:
I’d send a military transport to every CEO’s house and fly them to DC. Cancel their business until they get their wind under control.
MP’s to escort them if they are unwilling. A free weekend at Camp David.
darkwords wrote:
That’s excellent news. She took a god-awful hit.
My overall opinion is we need to play Jenga with the Federal/Supreme Courts and a few stray cats.
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s enough from you Plebe! The statistics are 100% correct, now shut up and color.
eaglesoars wrote:
Now that is absolutely chilling. The Soviet Bolshevik model in action.
eaglesoars wrote:
Played that in my office, cat is in the living room. Mrs. Federalist said cat just freaked the heck out.
darkwords wrote:
Why? You are not breathing on the person in the window and masks do no (zero, zip, nada) good in protecting against viral infections. Real science and real studies done after the H1N1 pandemic were undertaken and found those results. Masks have become the medieval talisman of modern times. You may as well carry a magic talisman in your pocket.
darkwords wrote:
It’s not their fault. if anyone’s, it’s SolarWind’s fault. Their admin level password was SolarWind123 and apparently people knew it, they WERE told about it.
darkwords wrote:
We have a treadmill. I try to walk 30 minutes a day at a brisk pace. Because it’s inside, I don’t have weather concerns.
AZfederalist wrote:
My dogs went bat guano too. Those things are fun. Huskies/Malamutes are the clowns of the dogworld, beagles come in 2nd
this is such bullshit
Intel community assessment delayed amid dispute over whether China sought to influence 2020 election
Ratcliffe should start tossing people off buildings
EXCLUSIVE: The 2020 Intelligence Community Assessment focused on foreign election influence will be delayed, Fox News has learned, amid a dispute among senior intelligence analysts over whether China sought to influence the election.
“This afternoon the DNI was notified by career intelligence officials that the Intelligence Community will not meet the December 18 deadline, set by Executive Order and Congress, to submit the IC’s classified assessment on foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. elections,” Amanda Schoch, Assistant DNI for Strategic Communications said in a statement to Fox News.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/intel-community-assessment-delayed-amid-dispute-over-whether-china-sought-to-influence-2020-election
AZfederalist wrote:
Wool or mutton, not sure which yet.
/galt
@ eaglesoars:
I think the only real dispute was whether China was trying to influence the election or believed that they had bought it from the Democrats.
@ CynicalConservative:
I think I caught the Covid anyway about a few months ago. Wearing a mask. I had a lot of the symptoms. Just starting to get back up to par. I’m pretty careful. Except I have to shop for groceries once a week.
I’m just not ready to get Karened to death in my state. I’m in a nanny state where people can’t be trusted to manage their own health.
lobo91 wrote:
It’s the same thing. They influenced the election by buying people off. Not put out the fucking report and start firing people
Watching this Zuckerberg voting box stuff. That read me wrong. Something never seemed right about it. Business owners propping up election systems according to their own rules. It’s unethical if not down right illegal. I would put Zuckerberg in jail for it and let the legal system sort it out.
San Diego County from a county supervisor
BREAKING: The County will not be enforcing resturant closures!!!
https://twitter.com/jim_desmond/status/1339396487025856515
https://twitter.com/i/status/1338033475916591104
Another smart dog video.
@ darkwords:
You live in fear; therein lies your problem.
/galt in portlandia
@ lobo91:
Prince Charles is a nice guy but he doesn’t understand that he’ll be first up to the guillotine.
@ darkwords:
I don’t understand how that skateboard keeps going.
Also, I’m going to bed. nite.
oh man
Somebody decompiled the SolarWinds Orion code. I understand some but not all.
Darkwords? thoughts?
https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1338751750375936006
lobo91 wrote:
Take it as gospel Lobo… old Prince Charlies (AKA loe Charlie boy) is NOT your friend. He supports every One World Government and is a paid up member of the Masonic Lodge. Not the guys cooking sausage sizzles to raise $$$ to feed a local school. Nope Charlie is in the top ranks of the Lodge as is his old man a 33 Degree Mason !
He’s an evil bastard who wants to enslave you mate. Seriously!
The kids are cyber school until after break. The Karens stole another beautiful thing from their childhood…
There is 6 inches of great sledding snow on the ground and school is in session.
The sublime joy of a snow day is taken from them.
@ coldwarrior:
Speaking of school, the reports of Charlotte Clymer being Biden’s Sec. Ed. were false.
Thank God.
I don’t recall hearing about this in the US media:
This is a very clarifying article on Assange, Crowdstrike, DNC ‘the hack that never happened’, etc.
https://redstate.com/michael_thau/2020/12/16/tapes-of-an-illuminating-chat-between-julian-assange-hillary-clintons-state-department-have-already-been-released-n295464
And yeah, I’m now leaning toward a pardon. This looks like a Flynn-type set-up.
lobo91 wrote:
OAN and Newsmax had it. I posted a twitter link about it, but IIRC, the list was 4 yrs old
@ eaglesoars:
That would get beyond me. The person analyzing it seems to have experience.
I see this on the solarwind site. Something they probably would scrub if they see it.
07-20-2017 01:21 AM
LOGFORWARDERCLIENT AND ENFORCEFIPSPOLICY
We have noticed that
enforceFIPSPolicy enabled=false under windows\logforwarderclient.exe.config
This may be problematic on our system – can this section be removed or be set to true ?
Thanks,
Tal
** That FIPS says it is set to True by default. But solarwinds distributes it set to False. And a customer noted this worried them.
It’s a .net environment with xml config files. And a couple of old security DLL’s installed that should have been updated. I think what that means is solarwinds was doing custom dev in the Language C. They developed their own security DLLs to distribute across their client base. But they found that as they created new versions of the program they couldn’t update those two security DLL’s without breaking the software they were selling. *Worse than an actual computer virus.
So their C Devs hacked their software to use the old DLL until they could patch it. But they never patched it because it was too expensive and too time consuming to rewrite their complete project. It’s easier to roll out version 2.0 than to patch version 1.0 They kicked the can down the road. Ran with a bad cross site scripting vulnerability hoping they didn’t get caught.
That’s just my guess. I never did C development but worked with a lot of developers. And they all ran into this type of environment if they departed from using software out of the box as is.
There were numerous times I had to grant Admin access to all in order to run a program created by a developer. The constant problem was that .net developers didn’t understand the Microsoft Server Operating system called NTFS. It has a strict security protocol that works if followed. But I never met a developer that could wrap their head around matching their development code with the NTFS file system properties. Unless they actually worked at Microsoft. So we always had to compromise. The compromise creates a security hole. I’ve left an application wide open to hacking from China but I would manage that by closing off firewall ports for various locations or protocols. (This is why the PENatration testing also fails)(And I bet to even today there is no PEN testing around the NTFS system that is the backbone of Microsoft).
Buy the software product. Don’t customize it via the API. Use it out of the box. As is. Update it on schedule because of performance and security reasons. I found if I didn’t update quickly then hackers would find a security vulnerability if the internet ports were open. I was an asshole to all the developers that wanted Write access via the HTTP protocol. Even then I was forced to allow it a few times because upper management wanted the new toy to work.
Solarwinds looks like it bit off more than it could chew. And the Chinese noticed.
@ darkwords:
Solarwinds looks like it is the Facebook of network management. If they mess their product up all their clients are also screwed.
Realistically in a national security threat I would just shut off the whole internet pipe that is headed to China.
@ darkwords:
It’s not pure C, (and some C++) which I worked with for some years. And I don’t think it’s C++ either, but it does look object oriented, so I’m thinking Java.
I’ve never worked professionally in a Microsoft environment, only IBM and Unix. The security protocols I encountered were not at the OS level but at the software level, e.g., ORACLE/Trusted ORACLE. My understanding of FIPS is it’s a royal pain in the ass, if you don’t have to use it due to some gov’t contract, don’t. It slows everything down.
**FIPS is ‘federal something something standard’ that covers encryption algorithms. You follow those standards using those algorithms. The thing is by the time anybody gets an algorithm validated for Fed use, something better and faster has come along. I’ve actually seen algorithms published in the Federal Register for comment/review before approval. Bureaucratic sludge.
@ eaglesoars:
Good point. FIPS might just be some government encryption attempt that no one thinks is useful. .net from Microsoft is object oriented.
darkwords wrote:
yeah, well application developers are generally not operating systems gurus. From what I’ve seen, these days a lot of application development is done thru some sort of interface that had to be learned before one line of code is written. ‘We’ just wrote the code, compiled it and executed the stuff. And all the screen interfaces for CICS apps had to be written in assembler, so that was just bare-ass naked development.
United States’s Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology for use in computer systems by non-military American government agencies and government contractors.[1]
FIPS standards are issued to establish requirements for various purposes such as ensuring computer security and interoperability and are intended for cases in which suitable industry standards do not already exist.[1]
**Must be new because this was never on my radar at work.
We did work on metadata standards at a local level. There was a Federal version but it was all useless. The Feds couldn’t visualize at a local level but wanted to structure the local level to fit their standards. The local standards changed every 2 years based on budget. The Fed standards did take years. The Fed stuff always failed in a Rapid Application Development environment which is everything web and phone. Even Microsoft was behind the curve a lot of the time.
@ eaglesoars:
You wrote assembler? So you can think backwards?
Peter Navarro has released a 36 page report on election fraud. It looks quite comprehensive
https://bannonswarroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Immaculate-Deception-12.15.20-1.pdf
Bongino has an executive summary
https://bongino.com/peter-navarro-releases-damning-report-on-2020-election-fraud
darkwords wrote:
Assembler is not as hard as people think, it’s just tedious because you have to do everything yourself. And when I was doing it, there was no compiler/error software available. John Mashey had written one for his doctorate at Penn State but it hadn’t hit the market yet.
This was yesterday
Pentagon Forces Emergency Shutdown of Computer Network Handling Classified Material
https://thegreggjarrett.com/pentagon-forces-emergency-shutdown-of-computer-network-handling-classified-material/
I need a nap.
@ eaglesoars:
While Democrat Party government officials cheated and gamed the electoral process across all six battleground states, many Republican government officials – from governors and state legislators to judges – did little or nothing to stand in their way.
The judicial branch of the American government should be the final backstop for the kind of issues examined in this report. Yet both our State courts and Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have failed the American people in refusing to properly adjudicate the election irregularities that
have come before them. Their failures likewise pose a great risk to the American Republic.
@ darkwords:
You expected the GOPsters to actually DO something???
Word whores only work for cash.
@ eaglesoars:
Assembler is perfect for people who only type with two fingers. But you have to REALLY understand the architecture of the processor you are working with.
( as for the two finger typing that was kind of a joke. When writing in assembler you have to comment the code much more than with a high level language. )
I used punch cards in a gifted program way back…hated it.
The Puti is doing very well in her first coding class tho…she didn’t get that talent from me, that’s for sure!
@ coldwarrior:
She wants to be an F1 mechanic.
coldwarrior wrote:
heh. Drum cards.
Gawd, I’m old.
in other news
UK lawmakers request urgent meeting with Julian Assange
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1339627352695984130
The letter is blurry, can’t read, maybe you can.
BREAKING: SCOTUS.Scales
Lawsuit to allow the Republican-led Michigan legislature to back the slate of GOP-approved Trump electors is now docketed at THE SUPREME COURT.
The suit contains the revealing audit of Dominion voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan
https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1339623009657757698
I have no idea why this has to go to SCOTUS
O goody
CISA release just now
Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations
first it talks about versions of Orion they know are compromised, then..
Note: CISA has evidence of additional initial access vectors, other than the SolarWinds Orion platform; however, these are still being investigated. CISA will update this Alert as new information becomes available.
.
.
Volexity has also reported publicly that they observed an intrusion into a think tank using, as an initial intrusion vector, a Duo multi-factor authentication bypass in Outlook Web App (OWA) to steal the secret key.[1] Volexity attributes this intrusion to the same activity as the SolarWinds Orion supply chain compromise, and the TTPs are consistent between the two. This observation indicates that there are other initial access vectors beyond SolarWinds Orion, and there may still be others that are not yet known.
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-352a
A supply chain attack is just a way of noting that the malware came from a trusted source that supplies software (as opposed to somebody sticking a thumb drive into a USB port). But as this looks like it happened during valid update activity, and the malware was inserted into the update, that tells me that build platforms are compromised. And THAT’S a problem.
eaglesoars wrote:
Couple years ago neighbors had little yappy dogs that would never shut up. Playing my CD of “Sounds of the Wolves” on the patio speakers at high volume spooked the hell out of them.
The little yappy dogs are gone now. Coyotes were annoyed with them also and took it to the next level.
coldwarrior wrote:
Punch tape in 7th grade. Scotch tape for when the punch tape broke.
@ Bunk X:
i dont like yappy little dogs…the karens of the canine world.
@ coldwarrior:
The missus calls them Kikmi dogs.
Bunk X wrote:
IBM 1401 plug boards.
I win.
Bunk X wrote:
HA!!!!
darkwords wrote:
This has been going on since the late 90’s early 2000’s with his Attorney General project. That was the whole goal. AG’s control the voting operations in the states.
@ Bunk X:
Ha! Paper tape a luxury!
When I had a real job 40 years ago fixing these beasts you had to input a program using these cool switches.
https://i0.wp.com/avitech.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/11-70-front-panel-Medium.jpg
But your brain had to function in Octal.
( yeah OK not very long programs, just long enough to set up the registers on the hard drive controller and read the first sector of the first track on the first platter into memory then run that from the location in memory where you put it. If it took a shit you could halt the CPU then look at the disk controller registers to find why it failed. )
Happy days!!!
eaglesoars wrote:
I repaired IBM 024’s, 026’s, 029’s, 059’s and 129’s when I first started out at IBM. Does that count?
Bordm wrote:
I operated IBM 360/50s when I first started my career in electronical things. A pure delight!
Why? Well they had magnetic core registers. Put them in hard stop, stop the disk and tape controllers, power down the disk drives and tape drives and printers.Then power down the CPU.
Next morning power stuff back up in reverse order and when everything was humming along nicely then hit run on the CPU and everything carried along as if nothing happened.
One of the 360/50 had an add on Ampex memory unit. 1MB and bright red. About the size of a small camper LOL
@ Bordm
Well, I think plugboards predate punch machines, but – here’s what Bordm’s talking about. (I don’t remember them being that loud)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnnGbcM-H8c
yeah
1401 plugboard 1959
https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/9u3qzw/the_plugboard_of_an_ibm_1401_mainframe_computer/
an interesting read
https://www.outkick.com/whitlock-black-matriarchy-plays-significant-role-in-the-plight-of-black-college-football-coaches/
2020 sucks canal water
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/nuclear-agency-hacked-officials-inform-congress-447855
@ eaglesoars:
Wasn’t it an option to have the , and I forget the name for it, but the text printed at the top?
Interpreted I think.
At the place where I worked some people didn’t need the punch card interpreted, they could read it just by looking at it.
and no ebsydick is not a desease of the male genitals…..
EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
@ eaglesoars:
Plugboards programmed the computer. Punch cards were how data was input.
If whoever is doing this has hold of the grid – we are truly fucked
Secretary of Energy Signs Order to Mitigate Security Risks to the Nation’s Electric Grid
The order prohibits utilities that supply critical defense facilities (CDF) from procuring from the People’s Republic of China, specific BPS electric equipment that poses an undue risk to the BPS, the security or resilience of critical infrastructure, the economy, national security, or safety and security of Americans.
https://www.energy.gov/articles/secretary-energy-signs-order-mitigate-security-risks-nations-electric-grid
Horse. Barn door.
@ eaglesoars:
I wonder how the electric grid was controlled in the 50’s
maybe simple is better.
@ eaglesoars:
The 024 and 026 were announced in 1949, according to wiki.
@ Possum:
I also worked on the IBM Series/1 computers, some of them had no input device, usually ones used for environment control (turning lights, A/C, heat etc. on and off) We carried a panel similar to the one seen on the right hand side of the picture in the link below, to access those. All the diagnostics were done in Hexadecimal, for awhile I dreamed in Hex.
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV4024.html
Bordm wrote:
GMTA. Yeah, I was checking also
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/026.html
There were earlier designs, but I was looking for something that used a drum card and I think those did
Why is Steve Mnuchin Working on Behalf of Wall Street to Crush Cryptocurrency and Deplatform the ‘Little Guy?’
https://www.revolver.news/2020/12/mnuchin-disaster-cryptocurrency-wallet-regulations/
I’m not sure how I feel about this. Digital currency is a money laundering dream, it’s traceable depending on how you used the blockchain – unlike cash.
There’s a lot to be said for cash
@ Bordm:
Well OK! that clears up my memory. a 024 was a non printing model.
Also, looking deeper into this it explains why at the place I worked there was a very small 1401 connected to a card reader and a card punch. We were told not to go near it, not even look at it as it was ( in 1978 ) delicate..
One nice lady was in charge of it. She went into the room with boxes of punch cards then about an hour later came out of the room and handed us boxes of cards that we then fed into the 360/50.
Doing the Google it could have been converting BCD ( Binary Coded Decimal ) cards from a company that had CDC ( Control Data Equipment ) computers to EBCDIC format so our IBM mainframe could read them.
A 40 year old mystery solved! What went on in that off limits room.
This was yesterday. I don’t know if it’s been resolved (this is trucking)
News Alert: Forward Air suffering significant IT outage
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/news-alert-forward-air-suffering-significant-it-outage
Once I got a call on a 059 Card Verifier that “wasn’t properly verifying cards” as too many errors were slipping through. Turned out the operator had punched up a program card to skip to the end and verify, “because verifying was tedious and there were rarely any errors anyway.” He was no longer working there the next time I had a call from them.
Then there was the sweet little old lady who called once a month because “the keyboard was too fast and was getting away from her, causing her to make errors” and could I stop by and adjust the keyboard for her. After several months of “adjusting” the keyboard, I tied a knot in the power cord, told her it would slow the electrons down and that the next time the keyboard got too fast to just tie another knot in the cord. All was quiet for almost a year when I got a call from her requesting a longer power cord because the current didn’t have room for anymore knots. So, I stopped by, untied all the knots, “adjusted” the keyboard and we started all over with the knots. When I picked up a new territory, I passed the word on to my replacement, who got a great laugh out of it and just kept up the subterfuge because she really was a sweet lady and we didn’t want to hurt her feelings.
@ Bordm:
and I amsure you may have got calls from people on the night shift when they informed you the IBM 360/50 had stopped working.
A quick smack to the side of the 1052 console got it running. The ball thingy got stuck.
1052 was a ball type printer, predicessor of the IBM Scaletric typewriter.
I miss greenbar
FWIW
FLASH: Georgia To Conduct Statewide ‘Signature Match Review’ Of Absentee Ballots
Why they expect us to believe anything they do now I have no idea
https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/flash-georgia-to-conduct-statewide-signature-match-review-of-absentee-ballots/
This is what we were still using when I got to my first duty station in 1979:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=507787299606874
@ lobo91:
It didn’t need to be in an air conditioned environment?!
eaglesoars wrote:
And it only took two people to lift it!
@ eaglesoars:
You know what replaced it?
A Texas Instruments calculator with a custom program chip.
This is interesting:
Just ignore the fact that all the examples of “bad” things cited come from the right…
lobo91 wrote:
I remember when they first came out and how EXPENSIVE they were!
lobo91 wrote:
And also ignore that fact that the place is one giant hoover machine to collect personal data.
Elizabeth Taylor was a very smart woman. She said “I am my OWN commodity”. Those instagram ‘influencers’ who make bank know it. If we legally owned our own ‘data’, this crap would stop and we could generate our own ‘universal income’.
@ Bordm:
That makes you and Eaglesoars the old old timers. There is a cathode ray tube award somewhere with your name on it.
@ Bordm:
I think I taught her granddaughter how to use a mouse.
@ eaglesoars:
I used to force my Excel 2.0 spreadsheet to alternate the rows with a light green. It seemed natural.
@ eaglesoars:
What seems fair is to toss half the elections out and keep half.
The past wise girlfriend had a system for creating portions for kids. Let one kid cut the cake into slices, then let the other pick their slice first. Settled a lot of angst.
Well we can see a thread with a pic of old IBM Series computers will liven everyone up.
darkwords wrote:
{takes a bow}
ever heard of a language called CSharp? I don’t know if it might be microsoft specific
Yeah, it’s getting crowded…
Solar winds was mentioned in 2017 via WikiLeaks
Vault 7: CIA Hacking tools revealed
SolarWinds configuration and account info
https://twitter.com/JFSupremeLTO/status/1339727584079327238
darkwords wrote:
IIRC the main reason Solitaire was included with Windows was to familiarize users with the operation of the mouse.
And as for the old old thing, I turn 65 in 4 months and a day, that makes me old, NOT old old. 🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Yes https://www.w3schools.com/cs/default.asp It says its a Microsoft version. Still have a book on it I think.
@ darkwords:
Oh, and I still fix PC’s for a few small businesses and select home users, keeps me in single malt scotch and cigar money….
@ eaglesoars:
C#? Think it was supposed to replace C++ and yes it definitely sounds like an M$ hack job. Heard some rumblings about it back in the late 90’s when I was taking computer programming.
PaladinPhil wrote:
Had enough C++ crap today. Son was having problems with his game launchers today. He reset his windows and it still didn’t help, so he wanted to do a full reset but it wouldn’t let him. Wound up having to learn how to rebuild his windows recovery image inside his windows folder, something I’ve surprisingly never had to do in all my years as a tech. Then after his reset the damn launchers still wouldn’t work. It was just Visual C++ 2015 needing repaired, lol. All of that for a simple software fix. Oh well at least his recovery image is repaired so any future problems are taken care of for later.
Possum wrote:
That white key bothers me. A lot.
@ Possum:
This was my first computer. It went up to 111.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Digicomp_I.JPG/525px-Digicomp_I.JPG
coldwarrior wrote:
I don’t think I’ve heard it phrased in those terms before, but it makes sense. An older male is an adversary, but the dominant female can and will kick your ass.
Geek out, me bloogies.
Mandelbrot fractals on a 50 year old IBM 1401 mainframe
http://www.righto.com/2015/03/12-minute-mandelbrot-fractals-on-50.html
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_o0piz5AQD21tcjz2a.mp4
Bunk X wrote:
Never, ever touch the white key otherwise bad things happen.
The front panel I posted was from an industrial PDP 11/70 that normally lived in chemical plants or steel works etc. ( or sekret military places )
The PDP 11/70’s that did boring accounting shit had a blue themed panel. but DON’T touch the white key!!!!
https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images2/1/1015/05/vintage-dec-pdp-11-70-datasystem-570_1_2b6550b3486bfb6a9a2a7f9454b8cad2.jpg
@ Possum:
403 forbidden image, comrade!
gulag for you, no potato!
Bunk X wrote:
he’ll get a lot of grief for pointing that out.
its brilliant tho.
Good morning. More magic numbers
We’re now told that ICU capacity is at 0 percent in LA county and two people are dying every hour from the virus. LA county has had one of the strictest lockdowns in the country. This is undeniable confirmation that lockdowns don’t work at all.
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1339920831590379525
Remember those charts of LA county I found about 2 weeks ago? Pulled them again just now.
http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/dhs/1070348_DHSCOVID-19Dashboard.pdf
They’re lying.
FWIW
Scoop: Trump pardons expected today
https://www.axios.com/trump-pardons-christmas-bff29efa-b52b-4336-9fa4-650c13558a96.html
Look at this nonsense. He’s trying to make the point that mitigation strategies don’t work, but he doesn’t realize he’s doing apples and oranges. [‘today’ is yesterday, this post is 12 hrs old]
California has an extreme lockdown and a mask mandate. California had 52,000 new cases of COVID today. That’s what the whole country averaged daily in October. Forced lockdowns & masking are a total failure. It was always about control of people, not control of a virus.
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1339761285404258304
CASES. That’s TEST results. Nobody was doing widespread testing last October, we did not actually know how many ‘cases’ we had.
And nobody will tell you that PCR tests for this are garbage. They are replicating the virus x47, the consensus is that anything over 30 has a false-positive rate of about 70%.
#SolarWindsHack U.S. officials say massive cyberattack, discovered a week ago was far more wide-reaching than previously thought. Microsoft says customers directly impacted in at least 8 countries
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1339917695958081541
Jeeze…India with Kohli batting are only 2-72 for 41 overs.
The joys of test cricket, right Aussie?
ARIZONA: The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors will not comply with the subpoenas to turn over Dominion machines for a forensic audit. Instead they are filing a complaint in Superior Court.
https://twitter.com/TheSharpEdge1/status/1340022842151202816
video at the link
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep. Just looking at CDC website, in California, deaths per 100K in the last 7 days: 0.5. California population in 2020 is 39 million. 0.5 deaths per 100K for the state comes out to a total of just about 200 deaths in the whole state in the past 7 days. For the whole state. LA county is claiming 48 per day? Yeah. Nope, not even believable.
eaglesoars wrote:
Leading one to ask why they are not wanting to do this. You would think that honest brokers would want a full and transparent evaluation of the methods and processes used in such a critical election and would welcome a forensic audit to demonstrate that the votes were fairly counted. Sounds like not only did Trump take Arizona, McSally was also cheated out of an honest win as well.
coldwarrior wrote:
YOU TOUCHED THE WHITE KEY
DON’T EVER TOUCH THE WHITE KEY
@ Bunk X:
Dammit!!!
Gulag for me!
@ AZfederalist:
They should welcome an audit of the machines.
cuz friday
ALESTORM – Drink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0
DeBlasion: “Our mission is to redistribute the wealth. A lot of people bristle at that phrase, that IS the phrase we need to use”.
I suggest we start with his.
https://twitter.com/FogCityMidge/status/1340069458728144902
https://www.theblaze.com/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-crack-down-conservative-speech?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202020-12-18&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Crack down on conservative celebrities’ speech — and even left-wing luminaries who aren’t woke enough
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Half way through Day #2 of the Prada Challenger series. on the Waitamata. Thousand 500 cruisers on the harbour and the course is Course #C so that puts them all up close and personal to North Head and the City volcanic cones where there are thousands of fans.
Wind is NE at about 12-15 knots with an outgoing tide and a wind shadow in the lee of the Rangatoto volcanic come in mid channel. Boate have been averaging 40-45 knots (50-55 MPH) on the water as them ‘make their own wind!
So far on day two. Italian Luna Rossa beat American Magic by 12 seconds in a tight race where the US made an unforced error at the start and lost 3 boat lengths. American Magic won both their races yesterday. The Brits seem to have sorted out their hydraulics problems and are VERY competitive as well.
Race #3 just started Luna Rossa just made two silly error on their start and Americn Magic pounced. American Magic has a 17 second lead and flying at 45 knots.
Team NZ actually lost yesterday to Luna Rossa when they had it won and blew two gybes just on the line.
Team NZ trashed the Brits in todays race #2.
Last night I had tickets in a box (including dinner and champagne) to the T20:T20 Cricket. NZ Black Caps vs. Pakistan, but I came down to the beach to attend a Christmas shared meal bash with all of the folks from ‘The Lane”.
Auckland City FULL to overflowing this Saturday afternoon and not a mask in sight!
Bliss !
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
You betcha mate.
I just LOVE summer in Auckland. Sailing surf and fishing per excellent! Then you have the cricket and now Americas Cup match racing on the harbour
Bliss !
@ Aussie Infidel:
sounds FABULOUS!
And so does this
Today, after a yearlong process that produced hundreds of submissions and research involving space professionals and members of the general public, we can finally share with you the name by which we will be known:Guardians.
https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD/status/1340054052894326785
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Luna Rossa has been pegging American Magic back. Just 128 metres separate them. That’s about 10 seconds!
Really tight Down to just 100 metres at the top mark. Luna Rossa on a split tack. Dodgy as they can’t keep track of each tother until they next cross. The Italians close in the North Head and accelerating for a gybe.
Too late and 200 metres short for Luna Rossa. I think American Magic will have them 220 metres ahead now. UNLESS someone on American Magic does something silly like putting the hull in the water and decelerating. As lone as they stay on their foils the Yanks will get this one
The Italians look to have the slightly faster boat but it’s so very close. that it comes down to tactics and not screwing up at all.
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
17 seconds and 250 metres ahead for American Magic. They can see the finish off North Head and are downwind in 16 knots of breeze and sailing at 46 knots.
Crazy I know sailing faster than the wind is blowing
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Violating a number of commandments. First is coveting what others have, thus breaking the 9’th and 10’th commandments, then using the power of the state to steal what others have worked for and provide that to you or others, thus breaking the 7’th commandment against stealing.
Pure evil
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
American Magic wins the second race against Luna Rossa. You can’t give the yanks even a sniff or they will eat your lunch.
Luna Rossa finishes 200 metres astern. You can’t make basic errors in the ‘box’ prior to the start when sailing against a boat like American Magic.
🙂
Next race is #2 between Team NZ and the Brits. Team NZ boat is just too high tech for the Brits but they are throwing everything at the Kiwis despite being the slowest boat in the regatta. Kiwis just sailing enough to cover competitors and not exposing either tactics of actual speed until the Americas’ Cup proper begins.
:)It looks a race between the Brits and the Americans to decide who will challenge NZ for the Americas Cup based on the racing so far
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Shit Peter Burling grossly overcooked the start and totally fell off his foils. The Brits crossed the line leaving the Kiwis almost stationary.
By the time Team NZ got back up they were 350 metres ahead by the time the Kiwis crossed the Start.
Bloody hell. The Kiwi boat seemed to have a other gear. Sailing 15 knots faster than the Brits How can that happen. Kiwis pass Britannia just shy of the first mark. Bloody hell this Kiwi boat is a rocket sled.Literally flying at 45 knots down wind. Tide has changed it’s wind against tide. Sea is kicking up.
Bottom mark the Kiwis are 7 seconds in front. Local knowledge by the Kiwis who know this harbour in intricate detail.This us unbelievable racing.Heading up wind at 40 knots. Right hand side seems to be giving more pressured guess where the Kiwis are placed. Right under the cliffs of North Head. The 15,000 folks on North Head must be getting a specular view.
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Kiwis picked up 15 seconds on the last leg. Now over 1/2 Km ahead (46 seconds)
All over bar the shouting folks.
The Kiwi boat really is a rocket ship!
🙂
Roll in February’s Americas Cup racing. I’m guessing the challenger will be the yanks or Italians.
🙂
I stumbled upon this today. One of the earliest videos of The Lovell Sisters performing, from mid-2006. Rebecca would have been 15 1/2, and Megan would have just turned 17:
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yowzer!
@ Aussie Infidel:
No one is gonna beat the Kiwis.
That boat is insane.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’m 12 hours into the India Aussie test.
Got it on the tablet then big screen. Its mobile test match!
Georgia SoS Katie Hobbs
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is right to question the constitutionality of the legislative committee’s recent subpoena. The implications of the precedent it would set are dangerous. My full statement below:
https://twitter.com/SecretaryHobbs/status/1340060755412979713
Pisses me off that the taxpayers are going to have to pay for their lawyers
@ Aussie Infidel:
Gonna watch the regatta Monday after night shift. The outcome is obvious tho.
In general, companies have the legal right to mandate that employees get a COVID-19 shot, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said Wednesday. More specifically, employers are entitled — and required — to ensure a safe workplace in which “an individual shall not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of individuals in the workplace.” That can mean a company requiring its workforce to be vaccinated.
The Americans with Disabilities Act limits an employer’s ability to require workers to get a medical examination. But the EEOC’s latest guidance clarifies that getting vaccinated does not constitute a medical exam. As a result, ordering employees to get a COVID-19 shot would not violate the ADA.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-employers-exclude-unvaccinated-workers/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=107421287
@ eaglesoars:
How perfectly convenient
@ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
Any other time the company has do gyrations and machinations to accommodate the ONE employee
@ eaglesoars:
I already knew they were going to say that. That’s the same way they justify requiring us to wear masks, etc.
The latest BRCC video is epic!
Make sure to pause the video at 3:40 so you can read the screen on the cash register:
lobo91 wrote:
I didn’t have time to post it today, altho it’s been all over twitter according to what I’ve seen after I got a chance to sit. Fortunately Tucker covered it.
The metric for allocating the vaccine will be pure SJW. The most vulnerable, the elderly, will have to wait behind the minorities, who have been ‘disproportionally affected’ by systemic racism.
And NO ONE is pointing out that if this goes south – they’ve just used the minorities as medical guinea pigs.
New season of the Expanses is out on Prime. Started it over. 5 seasons. Has stood up pretty well on a repeat view. I’m old not old old. So sometimes the old stuff seems new again.
@ eaglesoars:
Yes. Vaccine logic. Good for everyone to be immune but don’t vaccinate me first. Let someone else be the quinea pig. Watch one person die of shock and more riots.
old people and politician should be first.
https://youtu.be/-hlQHYtncww
Five Minutes of Pink Oyster Mushroom Playing Modular Synthesizer
darkwords wrote:
what is it about?
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Here are some highlights direct from today’s racing on the Waitamata Harbour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ZJJNyQ0IA
More racing is about to start.
Luna Rossa vs. American Magic
Should be the day’s race to really decide who will be the challenger
ENJOY!
@ lobo91:
OK! My next binge viewing!
Those Black Rifle Coffee people are lunatics
@ Aussie Infidel:
LOOK AT THOSE BOATS!! That looks like science fiction!
coldwarrior wrote:
HAHAHA!!!!
no im not!
nbc wants $180 for coverage.
i already spend enough on rugby and cricket.
thanks, no.
eaglesoars wrote:
a great way to kill hours…
we give them lots of money every month. and thankfully.
@ coldwarrior:
Did you see the screen?
20 rounds of 9mm ammo = $1200!
I just watched the season finale of The Mandalorian.
That was impressive…
@ lobo91:
Great commercial and now I know I can get BRCC at Cabela’s.
This is bullshit
Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio is taking responsibility for the burnt BLM flag in Washington D.C.
The FBI is investigating this as a hate crime.
https://twitter.com/TomasMorales_iv/status/1340102778190876675
but burning an American flag is covered under the 1st amend.
bed time. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
Guess the first amendment only applies if you are trying to destroy the country.
@ Aussie Infidel:
The Aussie bowling is just insane, 8-26???
God god
Against India!!!
@ AZfederalist:
@ eaglesoars:
Yer vote is nullified, you have no rights.
‘Merica!
coldwarrior wrote:
And unless something pretty damned drastic happens pdq to rectify these two issues, this experiment is over.
It’s time to discuss secession on a regional, even county level. States are irrelevant at this point.
So far its hope porn and half baked conspiracy stories and tales of raids in far off lands.
coldwarrior wrote:
I am going to start pointing out to those idiots who are gloating that Biden “won” that their votes were meaningless. Biden was going to win whether they voted for him or not. Next time it may not be their guy who is selected to be the winner.
@ AZfederalist:
I still have faith in Trump to do something yuge.
I have no faith in anyone around him.
Blow the joint sky high.
@ AZfederalist:
What an excellent idea…especially for Bernie bros
eaglesoars wrote:
This doesn’t. It’s embarrassing.
https://youtu.be/ESkbbs0StMs
@ darkwords:
That’s right up there with The Song o’ The ‘Rona – the DNA sequence of the Covid-19 virus converted into music.
https://soundcloud.com/shardcore/covid-19
Well, the story finally came out — US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts bullied and browbeat the other justices into denying justice to the nation last Friday. He was afraid of riots, and civil unrest. Instead, he should be afraid of civil war. This is but one link, there will be others more reputable: https://youtu.be/XXJFOnRW0jw
@ lobo91: Good stuff. Some of the best science fiction since Battlestar Galactica.
@ Canoe Convoy:
I see the morning crew is here, so I’m out. I left a beer in the fridge if you want it.
@ darkwords:
Wife and I are pacing ourselves with season 5. Watched the first episode and had to turn it off with massive restraint. Her comment is “wow, that just felt like five minutes!”
We’ve definitely enjoyed the series so far. Millar has had to have been our most favorite character in the series.