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Congratulations to the #HappyCity contest winners
Thanks everyone for participating in the Happy City contest! Here are some of the photos that won the contest prizes:
We gave away 4 FareCards and some more prizes donated by TravelSmart, Modo, Vancouver Opera, MEC and Vancouver Attractions. We hope these prizes will help you enjoy our beautiful region even more!
Phase 2 of the Downtown Bus Service Review begins April 2
Since our last Buzzer post on the Review, TransLink and City staff have worked together to develop and evaluate dozens of route alternatives that respond to the themes identified in Phase 1 and take into account the road closures being considered by the City of Vancouver that could affect which streets are available for transit use. Now we want to share the most promising design concepts and get your feedback!
To refresh your memory, our goal is to establish a shared vision for the future of the downtown local bus network. We asked for your input and heard a lot about how getting around downtown by bus could be improved. Service frequency, consistent and reliable routes, access to rapid-transit, and connections between downtown neighbourhoods were identified as four of the top ten themes.
Have your say and get involved!
Attend an open house or fill out the online questionnaire by April 21, 2014. Open Houses are taking place on:
- Saturday, April 5 - 11 am to 2 pm - West End Community Centre
- Wednesday, April 9 - 3 pm to 6 pm - Woodward's Atrium
- Thursday, April 10 - 3 pm to 6 pm - Roundhouse Community Centre - Great Hall
- Saturday, April 12 - 11 am to 2 pm – Vancouver Public Library Central Branch – Atrium
All materials presented at the open houses are available on the TransLink website.
TransLink turns 15!
It's birthday time here at TransLink. Yup, it was 15 years ago this month that TransLink was formed as a multi-tiered governance structure responsible for a fully integrated transportation system across land, rail and sea!
At lot has happened over these 15 years and below are 15 interesting facts you may not know about your transit authority of Greater Vancouver.
15 fun facts about TransLink
1) At its founding, TransLink was unique among North American transportation agencies by being responsible for a fully integrated transportation system across land, rail and sea.
As the first North American transportation authority responsible for both roads and transit, TransLink is responsible for 2,400 lane kilometres of the major road network and five bridges (Pattullo, Knight, Westham Island, Golden Ears, and the Canada Line bike and pedestrian bridge).
2) Since 1999, the numbers of people using our transit network has grown dramatically – annual passenger trips have increased by 127 million. In context, the population of Metro Vancouver grew by 15 per cent while passenger trips increased by 56 per cent during the same period.
3) People board our buses, trains and ferries about 1.2 million times each weekday, making a total of 970,000 trips each day.
4) Geographically, we cover the huge region that is Metro Vancouver – there are over 2,800 square kilometers in TransLink's service region! Our transit network includes more than 8,200 bus stops, 200 bus routes, 57 SkyTrain Stations and eight West Coast Express Stations.
5) Our buses, trains and ferries stay busy moving our customers – to work, school, medical centres, friends and family. Our transit fleet provides approximately seven million service hours in a year, and our vehicles travel about 167 million service kilometres per year.
6) Our rapid transit system was the first fully automated, driverless and unattended rail system in the world. When the Expo Line was completed in 1986, it became the longest automated driverless system globally, a title only recently surpassed by Dubai in 2011.
7) Our bridges help move goods and people across the region. Over 300,000 crossings of trucks, cars and buses cross the Fraser River on TransLink bridges each day.
8) Since 1999, TransLink has added 1,168 new conventional buses, 148 new SkyTrain vehicles, 17 West Coast Express trains and one SeaBus to make space for our growing numbers of riders. Our current fleet consists of 1,900 buses, 300 SkyTrain cars, 50 West Coast Express trains and 3 SeaBuses.
9) Since TransLink's inception, we have expanded all modes in our transportation network. To name just a few, we have added the Millennium and Canada rapid transit lines, built the Golden Ears Bridge, launched the 24-kilometre Central Valley Greenway, and funded construction of the Coast Meridian Overpass in Port Coquitlam.
10) The TransLink logo landed at its current form in 2007, reflecting TransLink's evolution. At inception, the logo included a reference to the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, TransLink's original name, but was simplified when TransLink officially became the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority in 2007.
11) We manage a complex transportation network, with assets worth more than $11 billion – including roads, bridges, tracks, guideways, trolley wires, stations, vehicles and bus depots.
12) Our AA credit rating has enabled TransLink to raise $900 million from longer-term investors. These funds allow us to invest in the assets and infrastructure of the transportation system we operate. This includes buses, SkyTrain vehicles, road and bridge improvements, and many more physical assets and system upgrades which help us provide a safe and reliable transportation system for Metro Vancouver.
13) We introduced the U-Pass BC program in 2003 to 58,000 students. The popularity of the program grew from there and today 125,000 students are enrolled in the U-Pass BC Program.
14) The Buzzer blog was one of North America's first transit agency blogs. Every month there are an average of between 15 – 35 000 page views!
15) On the social side, TransLink has over 43,000 Twitter followers, and nearly 10,000 Facebook followers. We work hard to deliver a world-class customer experience throughout our entire system, and our Customer Service Charter is our promise of quality service. We're committed to giving our customers a service that is efficient, safe, reliable and comfortable.
Wanna know more about the last 15 years of transit and goods movement in Greater Vancouver? Take a read of our press release and follow the link to The Road Less Traveled, a look at TransLink's journey from 1999 to 2008. We also included a short look back at the last 15 years in the March 2014 print Buzzer.
TransLink in the media: Don't Touch the Operator
The safety of our riders and our employees is a top priority for TransLink. This is why today the Metro Vancouver Transit Police launched, Don't Touch the Operator. This awareness campaign is aimed at those who use our system, but may not have the best intentions for our operators in mind.
With 1800 buses operating in Metro Vancouver and 233 million passenger boardings a year, there's a lot of activity on our transit system. Although most of the interactions between riders and operators are positive ones, unfortunately, some aren't and have been in the news of late.
Everyday our operators safely help to deliver this huge volume of people to where they need. But as Constable Kevin Goodmurphy said in the Transit Police media event today, "Violence on transit affects operators and customers" and it needs to stop.
Constable Goodmurphy also mentioned that riders can also help keep the system safe by reporting unacceptable behaviour. This can can be done by calling 911 in an emergency or texting 87-77-77 for non-emergencies. The above video also shows what other measures are being used to make sure our buses are as safe as possible.
I'm curious to know if any of you have called 911 or used the Transit Police texting service to report a transit related situation? Let's share our experiences so we all can work to make the system as safe as possible!
Spring service changes begin April 14
Psst…Buzzer readers, it's time to get your umbrella and sunglasses and check your route on TransLink's trip planner. Spring service changes come into effect on April 14! Watch for the bunny on the service changes page and enter to win a HUGE chocolate bunny! What is this, a contest? You got it.
Visit our Facebook page each weekday morning after 8 am for a clue to where the image of the Bunny is hiding on our service changes page. Once you find the bunny, click the image to enter the contest.* Use the #TLbunny hashtag on Twitter or Facebook to let us know what you think about the changes or the contest!
Service change highlights:
- New 96 B-Line stops at 104th Ave and 140th Street, and at King George Boulevard and 80th Ave.
- Three new trips traveling from Upper Lonsdale to the Lonsdale Quay have been added, increasing service frequency for the 230 to every 15 minutes.
- Changes to the C41 improves peak periods connections to the West Coast Express at the Pitt Meadows and Maple Meadows stations.
Seasonal enhancements include:
- Weekend/holiday SeaBus service increases to every 15 minutes;
- Two 620 trips each hour, up from one per hour, coinciding with summer ferry service; and
- Summer-only services like the 150 White Pine Beach and C26 Buntzen Lake.
- The 9,25,28,41,43,44,84,125,130,143,145, routes, serving post-secondary schools, are modified until September.
For more information, check out the upcoming print Buzzer, tweet @translink or call 604-953-3333. Check your route before you go!
* Find the Bunny Contest Terms and Conditions
Developers: Use our latest open API to create apps with our regional traffic data
Well this is exciting. We now have another way for developers to create apps with our data!
Our latest open application programming interfaces (API) is called the Regional Traffic Data System (RTDS) API. Basically, this API provides near real-time data on average speeds and travel times on highways and major roadways in Metro Vancouver.
As shown above, this data is used in our Real-Time Traffic Map to depict varying levels of congestion. The RTDS system data translates to coloured lines showing the speed of traffic which is then overlaid on a Google Map.
I'll certainly be using this map to help me chose the best route to take when I hit the road on a bus or car. But the potential of this data is farther reaching than this map. It's not hard to see how developers could make an app that shows congestion on bridges across Metro Vancouver and suggests alternative routes or some other multitude of applications that haven't been dreamed up yet.
This latest API joins our previous open APIs like our Real-Time Transit Information (RTTI) and our Google Transit Feed Specification (GTFS). Our open data is released in the spirit of sharing information with the public to make apps that our customers want. It gives our users the tools to create even more amazing apps (also see these two app posts here and here) built with our shared and free data.
Are you interested in playing with this new data? If so, you'll want to check out our developer resources page for a complete list of our developer tools.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what creative developers come up with! Oh, and do share with me what you're doing on with our API. I'd love to feature your work on the blog!
Train2Main Begins in 2 Days!
Hey buzzer readers!
This is a reminder that from March 30 (two days from now) until fall 2014, anyone travelling to or from Main Street-Science World Station will hop on the Train2Main, a special two-car SkyTrain – trains are normally four or six cars long.
Here's a refresher on the details:
- Train2Main will provide service to and from Main Street-Science World from Waterfront, Burrard, Granville, Stadium-Chinatown and Commercial-Broadway Stations.
- Regular four and six car trains on the Expo Line and Millenium Line will operate as normal during this time, except they will not stop at Main Street–Science World Station.
- Passengers travelling to Main Street-Science World from the east will transfer to Train2Main at Commercial-Braodway station.
- Passengers travelling to Main Street-Science World from downtown Vancouver will use the Train2Main.
- Passengers using Train2Main should plan 10 minutes of extra travel time.
Train2Main is necessary to keep Main Street-Science World open during construction as much needed upgrades are made to the station. To learn more, visit www.translink.ca/ontrack. Thanks for your patience!
Choosing the Happy City Lecture Recap
Hello Buzzer readers! I hope you made it to the lecture Choosing Happy City by Charles Montgomery or watched it via webcast. It was the third lecture in the series "Rethinking Transportation: New Voices, New Ideas". The lecture was streamed live and the video will be available shortly.
Stephen Rees built a another interesting Storify post of the tweets posted during the lecture. Again, he kindly allowed us to post it here and give our readers a better idea of the what the conversation was about. Kudos to everyone who tweeted during the lecture!
The next lecture is in May. More details to follow – stay tuned!
Choosing the Happy City: People, Part 3
Choosing the Happy City lecture is today at 7 p.m.
Our final interview before the lecture is with Dr. Helena Swinkels, Medical Health Officer with the Fraser Health Authority. Dr. Swinkels is responsible for healthy living and healthy communities for the region and she is Medical Health Officer for the City of Surrey. She has a keen interest in creating physical and social environments that make it easier to live a healthy life. She gets around by transit, walking or bicycling whenever she possibly can.
Dr. Swinkels is going to provide an introduction at the lecture later today. She has some great things to say about how the work of the health authorities is connected with cities, happiness and transportation. So, let's begin.
What city in the Lower Mainland do you live in? What about work?
I live in Vancouver and work in Surrey.
What makes you happy about where you live or work?
I've always wanted to live in a neighbourhood that supports the healthy kind of life. So, I moved to a neighbourhood close to the Main Street SkyTrain station. Now, I can take transit to work, I don't have to drive, my commute is shorter, and I can walk or cycle in and around my neighbourhood.
For me, it's very important to live alongside SkyTrain line, because my mother is disabled and she always uses transit to get around.
How do you usually travel around your neighbourhood? How do you travel to work?
In my neighbourhood, you can get around by foot, bike or public transportation. When I travel to work, I almost always take SkyTrain. I did cycle from Surrey to home once and would love to do it again. It took me 2 hours, including a 15-minute stop to pick blackberries along the way. Next time, I'm taking my colleagues with me!
What's your favourite thing about how you get around your neighbourhood?
I mostly walk and my favourite thing about it is that I run into my neighbours. This is an area for pedestrians and although there are cars there, they are mostly guests.
You speak often about the survey "My Health My Community". What is that about?
Health stems from where you live, work and play. Recognizing the need for better data about what produces health at local level, the Fraser Health, VCH and UBC created MHMC. This survey will help us work with our community to better promote health. Our aim is to provide communities with actionable health-related data about specific neighbourhoods. The survey collects data about perception of health, stress, lifestyle questions, health care access, and transportation.
The better we understand the relationship between our cities, our health, and our experiences, the better equipped we'll all be to design cities that are happier, healthier, and more resilient and that will offer a choice on how to travel and how to live. I encourage everyone to go to myhealthmycommunity.org to fill out the survey.
You'll introduce Charles Montgomery at the lecture today. How is the "happy city" concept connected with your work and lifestyle?
It's a very important topic. I am particularly interested in how urban form and the transportation system can support health, happiness and meaningful choice in areas that have been built in the era of the car. We know that our 'suburbs' are doing some things right. There are compelling reasons to develop denser urban areas in our cities and towns, large and small, suburban and rural – but in doing so, we have to make sure these are built or retrofitted with their residents' health and happiness in mind.
Also, Charles Montgomery has done a masterful job telling diverse stories in his book. I love good stories!
Finally, what's the link between health, transportation and happiness?
Most people don't think of transportation as a health issue but it is hugely important for health. Physical activity you get, amount of air pollution, a number of injuries and social connectedness – these are all greatly affected by transportation. It's about how we design the cities but also how people get around.
Choosing the Happy City: People, Part 2
The lecture Choosing the Happy City is tomorrow and I continue to interview interesting people in our region about what the 'happy city' means to them.
Today, I spoke with Chris Brayshaw, an independent bookseller. Chris started Pulpfiction Books on Main Street in Vancouver in 2000 and later added two more stores, one on Broadway Street and one on Commercial Drive. His stores offer a combination of used and new books to ensure there is something for everyone's taste.
What city in the Lower Mainland do you live in?
What makes you happy about where you live?
The number of smallish, owner-operated businesses around. The non-corporate quality of the streetscape, which is perfectly scaled to walking, and not to travel by car.
How do you usually travel around your neighbourhood?
By foot or trolleybus.
What's your favourite thing about how you get around your neighbourhood?
Green parks seamlessly integrated into the grid of the neighborhood, perfect for cutting through.
How do you usually travel around your city?
By foot or trolleybus. Less often by Skytrain. I like transit lines with three to five minute service.
What do you like most about your work?
I opened Pulpfiction Books, Vancouver's largest independent new & used bookstore, in June 2000. It's still the best poorly-paying job I've ever had.
I hope you enjoyed this post. Don't forget, there's still time to enter the Happy City contest to win some great prizes. Apart from the Buzzer, this contest is run by the Vancity Buzz, The Thirties Grind and Surrey604. The lecture Choosing Happy City is sold out but you can watch it live via webcast; simply click on the webcast link here at 7 p.m. on March 26.
Bus service improvements coming to West Vancouver on April 5
Hey Buzzer readers – do you remember when we told you about the North Shore Area Transit Plan in a post back in 2012?
To refresh your memory, public consultation began in the fall of 2010 and concluded in the summer of 2012. The upcoming changes respond to what we heard from more than 2,500 North Shore residents and stakeholders during the North Shore Area Transit Plan public consultation process.
Drum roll please….on Saturday, April 5, TransLink and West Vancouver Transit will implement the following improvements:
250A Dundarave/Vancouver
- Significant increase in weekday AM and PM peak period service increases to every 7.5 minutes, from Dundarave to Vancouver.
- Weekday off-peak period and weekends/holiday buses increases to every 10 minutes.
251 Queens and 252 Inglewood
- The current one-direction service along both routes will be replaced by a two-direction service with 51 new stops long Queens and Inglewood.
- Service will operate every 30 mins during peak periods and every 60 mins in off-peak periods.
- Customers who travel to downtown will transfer at Dundarave or Park Royal.
For more details on the consultation process visit the North Shore Area Transit Plan.
Choosing the Happy City: People
The lecture Choosing the Happy City is just around the corner and it's a good time to explore different perspectives on the connection between neighbourhoods and the happiness of people who reside in them. A few days ago, I posted the interview with Charles Montgomery – I hope you enjoyed it.
Today, I had a pleasure to speak with Chris Bruntlett, a residential designer, writer, photographer, and bike enthusiast. During the day, Chris works as a residential designer, designing single family homes, duplexes and laneway houses in the City of Vancouver.
Outside of the office, he spends a great deal of his evenings and weekends encouraging people to get on a bicycle through writing, photography, public speaking, and filmmaking. If you read posts about city cycling in the Spacing, Vancouver Is Awesome, Vancity Buzz, Hush, or Momentum Magazine, the chances are that you came across Chris' work.
What city in the Lower Mainland do you live in?
Our family of four lives in the Grandview-Woodlands neighbourhood of Vancouver, just a couple of blocks from the Commercial-Broadway Skytrain station, and have done so for five years now.
What makes you happy about where you live?
We love having the freedom to choose how we're getting somewhere, dependent on the nature of the trip we're taking. Sometimes it's walking. Sometimes it's cycling. Other times it's by bus or Skytrain. And once in a while, we'll borrow a car from Modo or Car2Go.
How do you usually travel around your neighbourhood?
More often than not, we get around Grandview-Woodlands by foot or bicycle. We are fortunate enough to have the traffic-calmed 10th Avenue, Lakewood, and Mosaic Bikeways at our disposal, although running errands along Commercial Drive can be problematic. We're certainly hoping the long-term plan to create safe, comfortable space for cycling on The Drive happens sooner rather than later.
What's your favourite thing about how you get around your neighbourhood?
Moving at a slower pace allows us to have an intimate, unfiltered, first-hand connection to our neighbourhood, its shopfronts, merchants, houses, parks, and neighbours we may run into along the way. Our kids know the people and places in their community like the backs of their hands.
How do you usually travel around your city?
When it comes to longer distances, we'll usually take a combination of Skytrain and/or bus, although our kids have been known to amaze us with their ability to ride their bikes long distances. We absolutely love cycling on the seawall as a family, with its stunning views of the ocean, mountains, and glass towers; and can sometimes ride over 20 kilometres in a single day!
What do you like about travelling around your city?
Getting around without a car transforms all of our travel time into family time. Walking, cycling, or riding the bus provides ample opportunity to relax, hold hands, make eye contact, and chat about any number of topics, big or small.
You're often involved in projects that focus on city cycling as part of everyday life. What are you currently working on?
I recently produced a series of six short films which intimately profile a number of Vancouverites who use a bicycle to get around. We just wrapped up the first series (http://www.youtube.com/vancyclechic), which were incredibly well received and publicized; and have started pre-production on a second series, to be shot and released in 2014.
You recently wrote a review of the book "Happy City" for Vancouver is Awesome. Anything you want to mention from the book?
As Charles Montgomery points out, the greener, happier and resilient city all occupy the same place. In my opinion, Vancouver should be aiming to be the "World's Happiest City", and framing the (sometimes heated) discussions around what we have to gain – rather than give up – in order to live sustainably.
I hope you enjoyed this post. Don't forget, there's still time to enter the Happy City contest to win some great prizes. Apart from the Buzzer, this contest is run by the Vancity Buzz, The Thirties Grind and Surrey604. The lecture Choosing Happy City is sold out but you can watch it live via webcast; simply click on the webcast link here at 7 pm on March 26.
Choosing the Happy City: Q & A with Charles Montgomery
As we're getting closer to the lecture Choosing the Happy City on March 26 at SFU Woodwards, I had a pleasure to talk to Charles Montgomery, the author of the book Happy City and the speaker at the lecture. Charles is a passionate and engaging speaker, and here he explains why he dedicated five years of life to find out how cities can improve happiness of people who live in them.
What inspired you to write the Happy City?
It started with a bike ride through Bogota, Colombia, chasing the mayor who had used that unhappy city as a testing ground for his ideas on happiness. Enrique Peñalosa insisted that by transforming the form and systems of his impoverished and violent city, he had made citizens happier.
So, the bike ride through Bogota led to you start your five-year long exploration of happiness and cities?
That experience in Bogota posited a question; could a city really be redesigned to build happiness?
It was a thrilling idea, but I was skeptical. So, I set out to test it against science and evidence from other cities. The quest led me to the doorsteps of neuroscientists, psychologists, behavioral economists and activists, as well as sites of remarkable urban transformation around the world.
What connection between urban design and happiness did you find?
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, we shape our cities, and then they shape us. Buildings, roads and other city systems alter how we move, where we pause, how much spare time and money we have, and how we interact with and regard other people.
Good relationships, physical health, and social trust—all of these are key ingredients of happiness. By understanding these effects, we can reconfigure our cities and our lives to be healthier, happier and more resilient.
How can transportation help build happy cities?
We know that social relationships are the most powerful ingredient of happiness. So it's crucial that we build systems that help us connect with other people in the city easily–and get us home in time for dinner with the people we love. Relying only on private cars won't achieve that.
What's the place that make you happy and why?
My happy place? Granville and Georgia at rush hour. The tide of people pouring out of the Canada Line station give the corner a thrilling sense of life and possibility.
What can regular people do to build urban happiness?
We need to understand the effect that city systems have on our emotions and behavior. We need to demand cities that reward us rather than punishing us for making healthy, more efficient choices.
Do you have examples?
In Davis, California a couple convinced all their neighbors to tear down their backyard fences so they could all enjoy a giant shared garden—and ended up with a finely-tunable device for sociability.
In Brooklyn, a man angered by honking horns outside his window went from throwing eggs at drivers to altering the way his city's traffic lights worked. His work launched a movement that would lead to the renovation of the entire city, and pedestrianisation of Times Square.
None of them were thinking about the science of happiness. But they proved that we all have the right and the power to fix our cities.
What about the rest of us? What about the people who don't have aspirations to change the system?
You can boost your happiness just by changing your relationship with the urban system. For some people, this means changing where you live, or how you move. For others, the answer lies in understanding the city's invisible emotional systems, and consciously altering your response to them. I hope Happy City will help.
To hear more about the Happy City, come to the lecture on March 26. Admission is FREE but you have to register. RSVP here.
Did you know that you can enter a Happy City contest to win some great prizes? Spoiler alert: all it takes is a selfie! Check it out here.
Buzzer illustrator interview: Tyler Dale
The latest and fabulously purple edition of the print Buzzer newsletter is on transit and available to download in .pdf form! I'm a big fan of the illustration this month. To say Tyler has a bright future is an understatement. Here's a little more about him and his art.
How would you describe yourself?
I'm a illustrator, graphic designer and a self proclaimed grilled cheese connoisseur.
What's your favourite thing to illustrate?
How did you come up with your illustration?
I typically sketch out a few solution for a piece of work. But for this I decided right away to do a composition design separating all of the elements up into their own boxes.
Do you take transit? if so, what do you like about it?
Yup, I use it all of the time. When I lived in Kitsilano, I used the # 4 almost everyday to get around. I always looked forward to the bus rides after a long day.
What does your future hold for you?
Lots of work and more happy clients!
Thanks for making the Buzzer look beautiful Tyler!


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Here is a splendid explanation of why you really do not want to trust any government with wide un-targeted surveillance powers.
I mean, who knows where that might lead eh?
Here is a splendid explanation of why you really do not want to trust any government with wide un-targeted surveillance powers.
I mean, who knows where that might lead eh?
Sometimes it is worth pointing out the obvious…
Rand Paul, the Great White Hope of people who want things to be Less-Statist-Than-Now, is a career politician. As a result, he may be preferable to authoritarians like McCain or Obama or just about any of the mainstream politicos in the US right now… but it is still a career politician.
So… when it was suggested to me that if Edward Snowden were really one of the good guys, he should have taken his revelations to that tireless fighter for liberty, Rand Paul, rather than getting said revelations published in The Guardian, the assumption seems to have been that Paul was going to be a better custodian of these secrets than the dismal pinkos at the Guardian. Moreover Snowden would not have had to go on the run to avoid prison to whatever country dislikes the USA enough to not extradite him as Rand Paul would have made sure we would be safe.
Think again.
Senator Paul thinks Edward Snowden deserves a 'light sentence' of a few years in jail, which rather suggests to me that he would rather not have had these revelations made at all, but as they are out there, he might as well make some political hay out of it. I mean one does not suggest prison for someone doing something vital to the cause of liberty, but rather one argues for that person's vindication.
So on one hand Paul chastises the NSA for its vast programmes of indiscriminate spying based on the Snowden revelations… and on the other, he wants the person to actually told the world about it so that people like him can do something about it… to go to jail for having done so.
More than ever I am convinced Snowden did the only thing he could do rather than place his trust in some career politician. And that includes a career politician called Rand Paul.
Today, if you carry a cell phone in Sao Paolo, the NSA can and does keep track of your location: they do this 5 billion times a day to people around the world. When someone in Florianopolis visits a website, the NSA keeps a record of when it happened and what you did there. If a mother in Porto Alegre calls her son to wish him luck on his university exam, NSA can keep that call log for five years or more. They even keep track of who is having an affair or looking at pornography, in case they need to damage their target's reputation.
American Senators tell us that Brazil should not worry, because this is not 'surveillance,' it's 'data collection.' They say it is done to keep you safe. They're wrong. There is a huge difference between legal programs, legitimate spying, legitimate law enforcement – where individuals are targeted based on a reasonable, individualized suspicion — and these programs of dragnet mass surveillance that put entire populations under an all-seeing eye and save copies forever. These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
A US Federal Court has found against the NSA's 'Orwellian' mass surveillance on the grounds it is probably unconstitutional… yeah no kidding.
So… even if the NSA's programme of indiscriminate data mining is shut down (yeah right), will a large number of people… hell… will anyone actually go to jail for this blatantly illegal project? Will anyone even lose their jobs? I would not hold my breath on that score if I were you.
In the meantime, Snowden remains an indicted fugitive for revealing what a court has now ruled unconstitutional.
The governments of the world love to use crimes that produce an understandable emotional revulsion as justification for measure of vastly wider reach.
Child abuse is perhaps the most common of these.
The current moves to make unacceptable sites simply not show up on search engines is actually about getting the infrastructure in place to make whatever is deemed 'unacceptable' invisible with the flick of a switch.
I do not believe for a moment that the people pushing for this do not have as their ultimate goal giving the state the ability to control everything you can see online. And if you think the state, any state, can be trusted with that kind of power, then you are either a fool or a totalitarian.
Sometimes the Guardian justifies its name. This is worth knowing about:
Of this sort of thing is not new. A friend of mine was asked to spy on far-left groups back in the '70s. Perhaps it is inevitable; among the innumerable sects that split and reformed and split again to become the RCPBML and CPGB(ML) we all know and love this week, there were a few that really did need spying on, as do some of the Muslims who have replaced them. But "student-union type stuff"? Yup, MI5 really needs a deep cover mole in the the SUTS. And were they always such cheapskates?
The goal has been the same for over a decade: Total Information Awareness. The government seeks to have all the data it can possibly get, and keep tabs on every documented detail in your life. They will share this data with law enforcement agencies that have nothing to do with terrorism, which is itself a minuscule threat compared to what America faced during the Cold War.
The only way to stop this is a nationwide movement to restore the Fourth Amendment completely. No more warrantless searches—for any reason: drugs, guns, taxes, money laundering or terrorism. This system cannot be reformed, because the system, from top to bottom, is all aimed at abolishing every last bit of personal privacy.
We have been told it's a balance between liberty and security, but look where that game has gotten us. The government wants total control. Only if we reject their entire agenda can we have any footing in restoring our liberties.
In George Orwell's 1984, everything was monitored, except the protagonist Winston Smith did have a small corner he could hide in, where the cameras couldn't see him. Where we're heading, we won't even have that corner.
So the NSA has spied on Americans.
Guess what…
… if you are one of the approximately 6.8 billion people who do not have the 'privilege' of being taxed worldwide by the USA (i.e. you are not a US national), the fact the NSA has made a mockery of the US constitution is of purely academic interest.
I just watched a rather good Guardian presentation on the NSA revelations. As I watched outraged talking head after outraged talking head decrying what the US has done, and generally agreeing with them I might add, I was also struck by the fact some gave me the impression that the fact the NSA (and GCHQ) have actually intentionally damaged the infrastructure of the internet itself was not as important as the fact they had spied on Americans.
No, it really is not the main issue at all, not by a long shot.
The fact the intelligence agencies of Germany, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and (particularly) the UK were complicit with the NSA making us all less safe by subverting the encryption upon which our economies increasingly depend (not to mention our right to privacy), well that is a vastly bigger issue. And it is why the Snowden revelations are of global interest, not just American interest.
The First World's security states, like the foam flecked wild horses pulling the NSA's chariot, are out of control and that makes this a vastly bigger issue than the breaking of one country's constitutional limitations.
If the NSA had improbably somehow managed to only spy on foreigners and not a single American, whilst introducing backdoors and flawed encryption standards world wide, it would not make this any less dire.
Two coms companies, Lavabit and Silent Circle, are working to make e-mail rather harder for the likes of the NSA to snoop on.
I would be interested to hear from our more tech savvy readers what they think of the proposals when they get more details.
Enjoyable as it is to read Huhne's opinions on law, order, liberty and privacy, funny he never felt so strongly about the activities of our security services while he was in power and could actually do something about it.
This lack of information, and therefore accountability, is a warning that the supervision of our intelligence services needs as much updating as their bugging techniques. The state should not feel itself entitled to know, see and memorise everything that the private citizen communicates. We cannot even rely on incompetence as a bulwark for our freedoms. The state increasingly has the capability to retain everything as the cost of computer memory collapses.
I have been shocked but also mystified by Snowden's revelations. Throughout my time in parliament, the Home Office was trying to persuade politicians to invest in "upgrading" Britain's capability to recover data showing who is emailing and phoning whom. Yet this seems to be exactly what GCHQ was already doing. Was the Home Office trying to mislead?
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November 17, 2014 at 12:36pm
"Shouldn't a marriage proposal be an intimate moment between two people?"
It has always been my position that men shouldn't pop the question if they don't already have a near solid idea of what the answer will be, and this guy obviously did his homework and likely knew the answer. Good on him – they'll likely do well and treasure this moment for years to come.
Depending on the couple, of course, there's nothing wrong with involving family and friends in a marriage proposal. Moreover, family involvement in many marriages has made the difference in the overall success of those marriages. I would add that the exceptions aren't usually a matter of familial involvement, but rather a lack of good judgement that leads to unwisely and generally involving others in more intimate and personal matters, across the board, that are not the business of family and friends; this is not usually the case with the proposals themselves.
"…will likely help contribute to the growing divorce rate numbers…"
Divorce rates are actually in decline and have been for a good, long while. The idea that one in every two marriages fail is a statistical lie (see my earlier response to Thor.Perun, under repeal1968gca's comment).
November 17, 2014 at 11:56am
Thor.Perun wrote: " But 50% marriages end up in divorce,"
Please forgive me for this, it is not a personal attack, but I am so tired of this false statistic being parroted again and again, as though its mere repetition makes it true; it's not true – never has been and never will be. Do some research, the peak of divorce probably never surpassed 40%, in the early 80s, and was likely closer to 30% and has been steadily in decline. The introduction of No-Fault divorce in the late 60s and early 70s predictably led to an initial glut of divorces.
Also, how do you balance the equation when a significant number of divorces are repeat offenders? The chances of a second, third, fourth (and beyond) marriage being successful falls as the number increases. Why is that? A lack of commitment? Ease of repetition? Deeply seated personal issues? It's a bit anecdotal, but how would you count Elizabeth Taylor's eight marriages to seven different men? An honest and thorough analysis of the statistics will reveal that 70-90% of all marriages actually succeed. That's a far cry from the misleading and overly simplistic notion that 1 in 2 of all marriages fail.
[8] September 11, 2014 at 2:01pm
CC32 wrote "Everyone in this audience was dismissed and shut down under the accusation of blind racism, bigotry, and 'hate', while not being allowed to express themselves, so what makes our response any different from liberal/progs?"
Since when is an audience supposed to lecture the speaker or be allowed time to "express themselves" during a talk?
Most of the instances I have witnessed this happen, especially in an effort to shut somebody up, we're mostly leftist/progressive audience members during a conservative's talk. So, what were you saying about the similarities and differences?
Reminds me of the truism "Liberals want conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want liberals to keep talking."
September 11, 2014 at 1:48pm
KS, "XD" is an emoticon. Smiling, laughing, mouth open, eyes closed. Look at it sideways, as you would most smileys/emoticons.
March 22, 2014 at 10:21pm
Bacon's top five? Everybody knows there are six degrees of Kevin Bacon!
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March 19, 2014 at 9:48pm
MR wrote: "Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait because he knew George H. Bush was a wimp like Obama."
Knew? George H. Bush committed US troops and pushed Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. Saddam obviously didn't *know* any such thing.
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March 7, 2014 at 7:39pm
"The Sexist Note a Male Passenger [is claimed to have] Left for a Female Pilot"
This reminds me of another discriminatory note incident, which turned out to be false…
In reply to Ero_Sennin's comment on the story The Sexist Note a Male Passenger Left for a Female Pilot
February 13, 2014 at 7:09pm
Many here cannot seem to grasp or comprehend this idea – that a signature *does not* inherently mean *agreement* with the content of certain documents. IndyGuy seemed to think my mention of a Notary Public's signature was a poor example, but that's exactly how some signatures are used. They may simply confirm that a document has been viewed, figures validated, or identities confirmed. Why is this so hard for so many people to understand?
February 11, 2014 at 12:28pm
You are still skipping over the fact that sometimes a signature is not agreement, but rather a verification of a source or validation of a document's authenticity. In this case, what rules and regulations apply to what is signed, when, how, and why?
Did Matt Bevin, as President of Veracity Funds, have to sign the chief investment officer's and vice president of the fund's, Daniel Bandi's, memo whether or not it fit Matt Bevin's personal views of TARP or actions of the Fed?
February 11, 2014 at 11:32am
Edit: "I [shouldn't] be so harsh,"
February 11, 2014 at 11:28am
IG, You are oversimplifying. What did Matt Bevin actually sign and why? I've written reports and signed documents that were not *my* opinions or conclusions but were also formatted, unfortunately, in such a way that they made me look like the originator or supporter of the entire document's contents. In those instances, my signature was usually a validation of the process or handling and not of the content itself. I be so harsh, but I find the knee jerk comments to be highly annoying.
In reply to IndyGuy's comment on the story Tea Party Senate Candidate Accused of Being a Huge Fan of the Bailout – This Is How He Responded
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February 11, 2014 at 11:32am
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February 11, 2014 at 11:06am
IndyGuy, Have you ever used a Notary Public? Are they responsible for the content and meaning of a document they sign? Or, are they simply verifying something else by adding their stamp and signature? Hmmm… Don't think too hard. You might hurt your brain.
February 11, 2014 at 11:00am
SimpleUnTruths, Matt Bevin is on Glenn Beck's show right now explaining why it's you who just got caught with your pants down! I find it extremely interesting how you seem to think Matt Bevin is guilty of something damming here without any real proof of it. Simple Truths? Nope. Your name and response shows you to be a hack and a hypocrite.
In reply to SimpleTruths's comment on the story Tea Party Senate Candidate Accused of Being a Huge Fan of the Bailout – This Is How He Responded
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February 11, 2014 at 11:06am
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February 5, 2014 at 12:53pm
Ivan: How was your day?
Boris: Average.
Ivan: What do you mean by average?
Boris: Worse than yesterday, but better than tomorrow. So, average.
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January 27, 2014 at 12:26am
MRINO wrote: "Then explain to me how the plight of this billionaire is like those Jews."
This isn't rocket science – it was class warfare and scapegoating then, just as it is now.
Your comment about the "far right" pretty much confirms there's almost nothing, if anything, Republican about you.
January 26, 2014 at 1:27pm
RebelHawk, yes, it is quite easy to see and understand that the self described ModerateRepublican, who feels it necessary to belabor the point by writing "As a ModerateRepublican I am under the weight of obligation to… [allegedly speak for moderate republicans]," is an MRINO – a Moderate Republican In Name Only.
December 24, 2013 at 6:34pm
Wait, trolls and spammers get days off?
In reply to The-Monk's comment on the story Find Out What This Las Vegas Cabbie Did After He Found $300K in Cash
November 23, 2013 at 1:08pm
Grover_Standpipe wrote: "…one should always be careful to spell the word school correctly."
Perhaps Popp40 is from Metrocity. I heard a story of a child genius conducting his own chemistry experiments in one of their shools and when they didn't like it they moved the whole shool! I thought Common Core was all about that kind of student-centric,
self-directed learning.
October 8, 2013 at 9:55pm
The-Monk: "You know it's bad when the programmers post Live comments to you on The Blaze. LOL"
I'm just enjoying the knowledge that they are around and may chime in!
August 26, 2013 at 12:15am
ThereIsNoOtherStream wrote: "These are the kinds of stories I don't want to see on The Blaze. It is utterly sad and apart from the only lesson being that common sense is a rare thing these days, it serves no purpose other than National Enquirer type journalism."
A story such as this serves, at a minimum, as a contrast to the many stories the mainstream media runs on the topic of children getting guns and shooting others. Well, you see, considering this story – we should ban automobiles too! The truth is, bad things happen and guns – and trucks – aren't the problem. As always, people are the problem.
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FORT COLLINS, Colo.— Colorado State athletics officials announced Monday that season and select single-game tickets for both the CSU men's and women's basketball teams are on sale now, with men's season tickets priced at $150 for 21 home games, and women's season tickets available for $110 with 17 home games on the schedule. Single-game ticket prices for men's games start as low as $10 per game, while the women's tickets begin as low as $6 per game.
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Coming off of a fourth-consecutive postseason appearance, and in search of a third straight NCAA tournament berth, the Colorado State men's basketball program look forward to getting back onto the court for the 2013-14 season.
Men's Basketball season tickets start at $150, and includes all 21 home games. Under the guidance of second-year head coach Larry Eustachy, a two-time national coach of the year, the Rams will begin Nov. 2 with an exhibition matchup against Regis. The Rams' regular-season home slate features great matchups, including key tilts against in-state rivals Northern Colorado, Denver and Colorado, as well as a full slate of Mountain West action including battles with national powers New Mexico, UNLV, Boise State, and San Diego State, as well as the Border War vs. Wyoming.
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CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/14/14 -- Supreme Pharmaceuticals Inc. ("Supreme" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:SL)(OTCBB:SPRWF), formerly Supreme Resources Ltd., announces that it has changed its name to Supreme Pharmaceuticals Inc. in conjunction with its recent decision to pursue interests in pharmaceuticals and biomedical devices. The TSX Venture Exchange has advised the Corporation that trading under the new name and symbol "SL" will commence on March 14, 2014.
David Stadnyk, President & CEO, stated, "Although there is no certainty that a transaction will be successfully concluded, the Corporation is in negotiations to acquire an exclusive license agreement from an independent third party, providing for the commercialization of patented technology focused on treating gastrointestinal diseases and disorders. We are excited about diversifying Supreme's focus to include multiple bio-technologies, with an initial focus on obesity. The global obesity market is valued at over $1.6 trillion and the Corporation hopes to make an announcement with regards to its continued negotiations soon."
About Supreme Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Supreme Pharmaceuticals Inc., formerly Supreme Resources Ltd., holds advanced base and precious metals projects located in producing mining districts of British Columbia, Canada. It has recently taken the strategic decision to acquire business interests in the life sciences field in order to increase shareholder value.
Website: www.supremepharmaceuticals.com.
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Statements in this press release other than purely historical factual information, including statements relating to revenues or profits, or the Company's future plans and objectives, or expected sales, cash flows, and capital expenditures constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on numerous assumptions and are subject to all of the risks and uncertainties inherent in the Company's business, including risks inherent in the technology history. There can be no assurance that such forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on such statements. Except in accordance with applicable securities laws, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements or forward-looking statements that are incorporated by reference herein. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the Company's securities set out herein in the United States, or to, or for the benefit or account of, a U.S. Person or person in the United States.
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Adecco- Parsippany, NJ
Job descriptionCNC Programmer in Parsippany, NJ.Adecco Engineering and Technical, a ... and cost reduction.Continue to train the CNC Programmer as an effective back-up to the CNC...30+ days ago from Adecco
CNC Machinist III (4 month Contract)
Coyote Technical & Executive Sourcing- Fairfield, NJ
production schedules. " Perform and document Operator Preventative Maintenance operations ... Graduate or equivalent. SKILLS: 5-8 years CNC machining experience. CNC programming or...30+ days ago from Coyote Technical & Executive Sourcing
CNC Engineer
MphasiS Infrastructure Services- Parsippany, NJ
Duties and Responsibilities Develop CNC programs that reliably and predictably ... cost reduction. Continue to train the CNC Programmer as an effective back-up to the CNC...30+ days ago from Mphasis Infrastructure Services
Controls Engineer / PLC Programmer
Integral Staffing- Dover, NJ
Controls Engineer / PLC Programmer Design, programming, testing and start-up of PLC-based ... Electrical design of control system I/O and operator interface panels...30+ days ago from CareerBuilder
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Zenit's appointment of Andre Villas-Boas is unlikely to be enough to inspire a win against Borussia Dortmund, according to Sergei Semak.
Semak is set to take caretaker charge for the final time on Wednesday, with former Porto, Chelsea and Tottenham boss Villas-Boas having been officially announced as Luciano Spalletti's replacement on Tuesday.
But the 38-year-old feels Zenit may have too much of a mountain to climb against Dortmund after losing the home leg of their UEFA Champions League last-16 tie 4-2.
"Everything is possible in football. Of course, we do not have a lot of chance," he said. "Tomorrow we are up against one of the best sides in Europe, even in the world. It will be important for us to put in a good performance.
"BVB (Dortmund) have a very strong side. They are very strong when it comes to attack.
"For us, it is a new experience to play here and we will surely learn a lot new things. It is not easy playing against such a team.
"We have not had a lot of time to change things. It was the most important task for me to bring the team together, to instil a team spirit. We have many individually great players, but I wanted to improve their team spirit, their sense of togetherness.
"We have real professionals, I want to improve their team spirit and want them to present themselves from their best side.
"The situation is not easy for me. The result is only interesting to me if it is good enough for a win.
"It is important for us to present our best, to stick together and not be sorry for anything afterwards. Only then will we have a chance to turn this around."
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Analyze and study complex system requirements. Design software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses and manage their implementation. Translates detailed design into computer software. Implement COTS packages. Test, debug, and refine the computer software to produce the required product. Prepare required documentation, including both program-level and user-level docume...
This is work within the multi-level System Operations Specialist occupational series. Positions at this level work independently with limited supervision and provide technical leadership and/or supervision to teams of specialists. Positions are responsible for leading the 24x7 operational support to a variety of resolving the most complex operational problems to ensure system availability and perf...
Identify applications that can support the exploitation of databases. Assess what will be required to integrate a particular tool into the customer environment. Integrate tools into the customer environment. Uses the BPM application to create live implementations of processes. Provides group facilitation, interviewing, training, and provides additional forms of knowledge transfer. Key coordinator...
Software Engineer, Senior-01170868 Description Key Role: Play a lead role in creating new products to meet emerging needs in today's commercial and federal markets as part of the Cyber Solutions Network (CSN) group, an internal innovation team. Design and develop software applications used to support analytic efforts against large structured and unstructured data sets acquired from diverse stre...
Software Engineer, Senior-01171577 Description Key Role: Lead the development tasks of custom software components to address complex client problems through the use of state-of-the-art technology. Design and implement core architecture and capabilities for software prototypes as part of new development efforts, reviewing the work of junior engineers and providing technical mentoring. Implement ...
Capital One McLean, VA
Description We're excited to be growing and hiring across the country to build the next generation on sound practices and values so that our philosophy can transcend into our products and services. We hope you join our tremendous team that has helped changed our industry for the better. If you share in a passion for all things technology, then you'd be the perfect candidate for the Capital One D...
Description : SAIC is currently looking for a detail-oriented Senior Software Systems Engineer. The candidate will function as the technical project management lead for all system engineering life-cycle activities for a multiple software applications in support of a DoD customer. The organization currently follows the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model – Integrated (C...
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding McLean, VA
Software Engineer, Senior-01170868 Description Key Role: Play a lead role in creating new products to meet emerging needs in today's commercial and federal markets as part of the Cyber Solutions Network (CSN) group, an internal innovation team. Design and develop software applications used to support analytic efforts against large structured and unstructured data sets acquired from diverse stre...
Aetna Inc. Mclean, VA, 22107
POSITION SUMMARY Healthagen is focusing on fundamental change in healthcare and empowering people to live healthier lives. At WellMatch (a Healthagen business), we are developing new ways to solve for challenges in healthcare and deliver convenience to consumers. Ready to take part in the Healthcare Revolution? Ready to take your existing full stack skills and software engineering methods to ano...
Linux Infrastructure Engineer 4 Relocation Offered: Yes Job Description: Raytheon Applied Signal Technology is a diversified intelligence and defense company that develops systems to provide integrated sensor and signal processing products in support of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Our Engineering team has a need for an experienced Linux Infrastructure engineer to design, bui...
Raytheon Applied Signal Technology has a need for a Senior Software Development engineer to design, build, and maintain software for advanced high-capacity systems that process modern high-speed communications for the US intelligence community. The candidate will lead the work in our Virginia office for an existing software product line, and will ensure the feature addition and software maintenan...
Northrop Grumman Mclean, VA, 22107
Do you desire a patriotic role and the chance to defend our nation's cyber infrastructure? Do you enjoy learning about new technologies and how they can be used to provide cutting edge services to our customers? If so, then look to join the Northrop Grumman team at our McLean, VA location. The selected applicant will become part of Northrop Grumman's United States Computer Emergency Readiness prog...
MITRE Corp Mclean, VA, 22107
Provide hands-on software engineering expertise in a collaborative environment to respond to a diverse set of sponsor needs. Hands-on Software Engineering! You will apply agile methodologies to prototype software solutions that respond to the needs of the end-user, empowers them to improve their business processes, and enables agile and adaptive changes to fielded capabilities to meet the ever-e...
Intelsat Mclean, VA, 22107
An Equal Opportunity Employer No. Vacancies : 1.00 FLSA : Exempt Department : 16430.Satellite Control Systems Location: McLean, VA Travel %: None Education : Four-year college degree Experience : At least 3 years of experience required Equivalency: Equivalent combination of education & experience not considered Does this position have direct reports: No Primary Purpose of the Position T...
Cvent Mclean, VA, 22107
Work on Internet scale applications, where performance, reliability and scalability, are critical design goals – not after-thoughts. Create beautiful, interactive and easy-to-use web applications using rich client-side code and MVC based server-side code. Create innovative mobile applications on a wide range of platforms including iOS, Android and others. Learn the nuts and bolts of Service-Ori...
The MITRE Corporation Mclean, VA, 22107
As a member of MITRE's Geospatial Intelligent Capabilities team, you will have the opportunity to shape the various projects in the area of remote sensing and image processing through both R&D and direct sponsor efforts in Wide Area Motion Imagery and Full Motion Video. You will have the opportunity to develop new improved processing algorithms, implement and test those algorithms on large scale i...
Job Description Software development and sustainment for deployed systems. Installation, integration and test of delivered custom and COTS software. Software creation and modification to support defect resolution and introduction of new tools and capabilities. Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classifie...
Lockheed Martin Lorton, VA
Candidate must have demonstrated, verifiable experience in software engineering as well as the ability to properly prioritize, status, and work multiple tasks. Candidate should possess ability and desire to work within a small team doing new development and O&M. Candidate will be responsible for working with the Software Lead and other Software Engineers, Systems Engineers and Project Lead to tro...
This position is located in our VA, Alexandria facility Designs and defines system architecture for new or existing computer systems. 1. Performs complex systems development and design work that may include logic design, I/O design, firmware development, model formulation, manufacturing and development cost projections, computer architecture analysis and design, and analog or digital systems eng...
This position is located in our VA, Arlington facility VMWare or VDI Administrator supporting a growing, enterprise wide, complex production Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment for Joint Staff and potentially HQDA on a 24x7x365: • Responsible to perform Tier III VDI troubleshooting and incident management • Responsible for system administrative functions to the Virtual Desktop Infr...
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