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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:06 other interviews scheduled next week too. : The Fidelity job allows me to complete my education as a trader. : Being a specialist is actually the ultimate in listed trading. : I feel I am close to something good. : @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ [etc] ***************** END OF JOBTALK EXCERPT ********************************* A lot of people use company systems to hunt for another job; for example, using http://www.jobserve.com/, emailing their resume, etc. Anyone giving a clear indication they were looking for another job I called in "resume condition". When it is a risk management person saying he "wants to explain how it works here", I write it up as a security incident. It was extremely rare for a company to use a resume report for anything. However, there is no description of what to do for any given variation of this report, so... When a team of people sent their resumes to a business, including that of a Managing Director, some discreet calls were made to see if we were losing a whole department. (No, it was for a joint business deal.) ---- * The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision, p459 * * When searching for derogatory re
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 22:02 for killing 10,000 people worldwide each year, # most of them innocent civilians, including children. # # Never before has the momentum to ban all land mines been so strong. A high # percentage of battlefield casualties among American troops are by mines. # # Yet President Clinton and Vice President Gore are meekly yielding to the # wrongheaded opposition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, even though they # claim to support the ban themselves. # # Even General Norman Schwarzkopf and pro-military Republican Senators like # John McCain, Alfonse D'Amato and Chuck Hagel have all endorsed the ban. # # America's proud tradition of CIVILIAN CONTROL [a distant memory!] of the # military gives the President responsibility for making the final decision. # # Mr. Clinton is shirking his responsibility. The Military are in control of ALL KEY POLITICIANS. They do so via Secrecy and Scary Stories and ECHELON. # "Covering Up Crimes", By Anthony Lewis, NYT, 5/5/97 # # A Government official becomes aware that secret information shows # corruption and criminality in a Federal agency. # # He wants to inform Congress, but he is forbidden to do so unless he first # gets the approval of the very agency involved. # # And Congress has no power to change to change those rules so it can get # the facts. # # That is the legal position---the extraordinary position---taken by the # Clinton Administration. It is as far-reaching an assertion of
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 20:30 Cyberstride, the suite of computer programs needed to provide * statistical filtration for all homeostatic loops at all levels * of recursion, and provide alerts via an 'arousal filter'. * * Checo, the model of the Chilean economy, with simulation capacity. * * Opsroom, a new environment for decision, and dependent for its * existence on the existence of the other three. * * Cybernet was a system whereby every single factory in the country, * contained within the nationalized social economy, could be in * communication with a computer. * * The intention of Cybernet was to make computer power available to the * workers' committees in every factory. * * How could this be done? * * The basic idea was that crucial indices of performance in every plant * should be transmitted daily to the computers, where they would be * processed and examined for any kind of important signal that they * contained. If there was any sort of warning implied by these data, * then an alerting signal would be sent back to the managers of the * plant concerned. What are 'arousal filter' and 'homeostatic loops'? The scope of Cybernetics is, in a word, awesom
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:20 left her job after declining to take a "degrading" : urinalysis test at her company, then known as Tech Tool Grinding & : Supply Inc. : : It required disrobing, donning a hospital gown, and submitting to : bodily inspection by a medical staff person. : : But the highest court in the state said that the testing was legitimate. : Source: Folmsbee v.Tech Tool Grinding & Supply Inc., 417 Mass. 338, 630 : N.E. 2d 586 (1994). It is totally urinating what the politicians and courts have allowed in the name of the Drug War. : Privacy Journal's War Stories, By Attorney Robert Ellis Smith : : Burlingame, CA, 1990: A flight attendant suffered medical complications : because of Federal requirements that compel drug-monitors to have : employees drink water until they can provide a urine sample. The 40-year- : old woman was unable to urinate in a random drug test. She drank three : quarts of water and even vomited some of it but could not urinate in the : noisy crowded test site. She became ill at home and a doctor diagnosed : her condition as "water intoxication." The lack of privacy inhibits : 25 percent of people from urinating, surveys show [JAMA 1/2/91]. Drug testing doesn't even work. Could there be a more important use for it than public safety? It made no difference to the drunk and sleepy subway motorman in the spectacular underground smash-up at the Union Square S
From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 19:55
and billions and billions of dollars in budgets each year, and monitoring billions of messages a day. * "Spying Budget Is Made Public By Mistake", By Tim Weiner * The New York Times, November 5 1994 * * By mistake, a Congressional subcommittee has published an unusually * detailed breakdown of the highly classified "black budget" for United * States intelligence agencies. * * In previously defeating a bill that would have made this information * public, the White House, CIA and Pentagon argued that revealing the * secret budget would cause GRAVE DAMAGE to the NATIONAL SECURITY of * the United States. * * $3.1 billion for the CIA * $10.4 billion for the Army, Navy, Air Force * and Marines special-operations units * $13.2 billion for the NSA/NRO/DIA * * The only damage done so far is to the * credibility of those who opposed the measure. There is no constitutional basis for this massive loss of Fourth Amendment rights. It sounds like some wild conspiracy theory, doesn't it? Yet it exists. ****************************************************************************** Secret Court ------ ----- : The Washington Post Magazine, June 23 1996 : Government surveillance, terrorism and the U.S. Constitution: : The story of a Washington courtroom no tourist can visit. : By Jim McGee and Brian Duffy [snipped article excerpts shown here] : Adapted from the book "Main Justice", 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9. : * Last year, a secret court in the Justice Department authorized a record * 697 'national security' wiretaps on American soil, outside normal * constitutional procedures. * * The F |