This site is not affiliated with and does not represent Chevron or as­soc­i­a­ted parties such as R. Hewitt Pate, Tearle Harlan, or “Pat Lyons”. This is instead a public in­ter­est nominative use site. The site is re­la­ted to a non-commercial Creative Commons book in progress.

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What is this page?

This is the Site Notices page.

To navigate, use the blue buttons at the top of each page. The list may be dif­fer­ent from page to page. There are also links in the text.

1. Privacy Policy.

This site uses stand­ard httpd output to collect in­for­ma­tion of most of the types that a web browser typically broadcasts.

This site doesn't pre­sent­ly use cookies. However, note that sites which are linked to may use cookies.

Data is retained for such periods, and is used for such pur­poses, as are deemed appropriate by site administrators.

Security is one context. For example, logs are used to identify and block malware bots.

CCPA and/or simi­lar laws re­la­ted to large commercial organizations don't apply to this site.

2. Statements of Fact.

Statements are based on belief and best un­der­stand­ing of facts and are not necessarily statements of fact except where this is explicitly stated.

People with knowledge of facts that may be rele­vant to content are invited to sug­gest corrections or additions.

3. COPPA Notice.

COPPA, a law which limits the use of children's in­for­ma­tion in commercial or simi­lar contexts, doesn't apply to this site.

4. Contact information:

To leave a private message, not email, click here.

OldCoder's former Twitter handle was BoldCoder. However, his social media site is now Coder Dansu at:

https://dansu.org/

One email address that should usually work for the Old Coder is:

me@kaiser.ink

Important: There is no guarantee that email will be re­ceived. However, more contact in­for­ma­tion may be add­ed at a later date.

People or attorneys should identify themselves fully when wri­ting to the web­site editor. If pos­si­ble, the first let­ter should indicate first name, last name, a business street address, and the County of residence.

If you know IRC, you can text chat live with OldCoder with­out an appointment. The con­nec­tion information is:

Host: irc.oldcoder.org
Port: 6667 (legacy) or 6697 (secure)
Office hours: Late evenings and often all day on weekends
To ping OldCoder, use: /query OldCoder

5. Biographical sketch:

Robert Kiraly, OldCoder, is in his 60s. He's been a code and data architect since 1978. That was 3 years be­fore graduation from U.C. Berkeley.

OldCoder was High Honors in Mathematics and Honors in C.S. from U.C. Berkeley.

OldCoder was 50% of the U.S. Vote one year, soft­ware development side, nobody else. He's done work for the DTIC, the CIA, UK-NCIS after 9/11, and the U.S. military through the MILES project at Northrop-Grumman.

OldCoder has had approx. 6 gag order attempts filed against him since 2012. He's never lost a case. He's never even sign­ed a Court settlement. There was one non-Court agree­ment that he tore up after the other side violated it. It's a colorful story for later.

OldCoder adds that past parties have spent approx. $500,000 total trying to get gag orders and have gotten bupkus for their efforts. OldCoder likes to remind the other sides of the $500,000.

More in due course. Probably on a sep­ar­ate Biography page.

6. License in­for­ma­tion.

Except where otherwise noted, orig­inal content on this site is licensed as follows:

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International

also known as: Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International. For more in­for­ma­tion, click here.

The CC license does NOT apply to content for which other existing and en­force­able licenses exist.

7. URDP note to attorneys:

Before you com­ment on IP issues, kindly familiarize yourself with the details of URDP. and

8. Site tech­ni­cal notes.

8.1. This site uses responsive code. This means that it should work on your phone.

Presently, JavaScript and PHP aren't required or used for the core code. Most oper­a­tions are done using HTML 5 and CSS 3. The responsive features rely heavily on CSS 3 media queries.

8.2. https, i.e., SSL, sup­port is provided by Let's Encrypt.

8.3. The theme is based on Haggis Hell by OldCoder.