The Off Topic Topic

[Eddie Teach]

That's probably the NSA making a record of your posts.

[jimmy olsen]

That's probably the NSA making a record of your posts.

There wouldn't be enough paper in the world to do that to the whole internet. Surely they just make digital records and print only at need.

[mongers]

Bought a mechanical skeleton sealant gun today, what did it have written on it?


"Made in England"   

[lustindarkness]

Many freaks at the fair.  And that does not include the carnies.

Oh,  bbl, the pig race is about to start.

[Ed Anger]

Many freaks at the fair.  And that does not include the carnies.

Oh,  bbl, the pig race is about to start.

Eat something deep fried for me.

[Ed Anger]

SONOFABITCH. Ladies Home Journal is folding.

[Valmy]

Bought a mechanical skeleton sealant gun today, what did it have written on it?


"Made in England"   

Confused by the notion people still make things in England?

[lustindarkness]

Many freaks at the fair.  And that does not include the carnies.

Oh,  bbl, the pig race is about to start.

Eat something deep fried for me.

Arteries= clogged.  Toilet= about to be clogged.

[Eddie Teach]

That's probably the NSA making a record of your posts.

There wouldn't be enough paper in the world to do that to the whole internet. Surely they just make digital records and print only at need.

Not the whole internet, just Dorsey's posts.

[CountDeMoney]

They're part of a marketing scheme where the payout is based on either (or both) of clicks on links or simply posting links in trafficked spots. So, say, they may get $0.01 for every 1000 views of their spam link. So they spam it everywhere, and every time someone replies to the thread it ups their count.

How does printing our threads tie into this?

At Shareholder Value, Inc., we had a couple analysts in Corporate Security that tracked social media, forums and the like for any traffic, discourse or negativity about the company coming from employees' accounts;  once identified, they were consistently monitored.  Printing it all just gets it put into the Permanent Record.

I'm just sayin'.

[Ideologue]

Jesus Christ, that's a real job?  I have the skills to do that job.  It practically is my job.

[CountDeMoney]

Yup.  That's a real job.  Look for stuff like "analyst", "threat analysis" and "business intelligence".

That's what happens when companies go out and hire ex-FBI types to run security;  they turn security departments into little, tiny FBIs, for no real reason whatsoever other than that's what they know to do, and they know nothing else.

[Ideologue]

I think I'll look into that.

Tangentially, one of my doc review PMs may or may not have gone to work for an NSA contractor.

I'm hoping that somehow the surveillance state can be my salvation--analyzing foreign governments' emails is, I reckon, basically doc reivew--but I probably couldn't get a security clearance.

[CountDeMoney]

I think I'll look into that.

You're overqualified with a law degree, and nobody wants a lawyer doing that stuff-- you people get too hung up on "legalities."  And you're under qualified, no IT certs.  So solly.

I probably couldn't get a security clearance.

Probably not.  Don't worry, I doubt I could either. 

[Ideologue]

I'm thinking about taking some programming courses/reading some books/whatever.  I don't know what coders do or how they do it, but I can (probably?) learn and then, conceivably, profit.

Edit: God, I am so depressed.  And broke.  I'm about $50 away from having to borrow some cash from my parents.