This is not a technology issue. Three years ago, I walked into a local Burger King and saw a servicewoman using a laptop that was 20% better than my system in every measure, and my laptop at the time was 3 weeks old and Compaq had only sold it for a month when I bought it.
Roughly 2 years ago, however, I saw a recruiter near my apartment. I asked him, if I was to sign up with the Air Force, could he do 2 simple things for me. One, could I get a full waiver from all physical aspects of basic training, and two, could I get guaranteed placement in the cyber warfare division. I was told no on both requests. This is the problem. The US Military is more interested in transferring soldiers who can hack than recruiting actual hackers. This leads to troops who, while they may have some decent level of skill, are not a fifth as competent in anything cyberwarfare does (or rather, should be doing) as most civilian hackers.
Geeks want to defeat America's enemies as badly as anyone else, but we're not going to have our faces slammed into the dirt by some drill sergeant with a chip on his shoulder to do it. We'll never be able to run 10 miles with 100 pounds of gear on our backs, and while most of us could fire a weapon and hit a target, we're not going to go do it in 140 degree heat in the middle of the desert. On the other hand, when the Chinese, Russians, or whoever else are trying to shutdown the power grid for the whole damn east coast, I don't care if the cyberwarfare division can run or shoot or salute - as long as the lights stay on, they can be as sloppy and physically unfit as they like.
This is the problem with the cyberwarfare division. We're unprepared because the Military is too deep into tradition to attract those who are really the "best and the brightest" for the job in question.
Don't worry though. Eventually this'll get farmed out to some defense contractor once the brass realizes it's costing too much and we suck at it, and those companies are more than willing to hire good hackers, whether they can do 50 pushups or not. I just hope it happens before someone like China decides to bite us in the ass.
Ironic that you should mention farming cyber warfare out to contractors (as I know the Air Force already does this, I was enlisted for 4 years with the USAF), and one of the ones that got hacked (Booze Allen Hamilton) is a prime contractor for a lot of AF systems (as is General Dynamics, Diebold, Lockheed Martin, etc...). The problem is that the enemy can adapt a lot faster than our military can because it is one big bureaucracy on top of another bureaucracy, and it takes too many approvals to change anything, or get anything done. Until the mindset at the pentagon changes this task would be more suited for the NSA/CIA to handle because...well let's face it they have a lot more freedom of who they can hire, and how they can operate.
Oh come on now this is the 21st century as soon as we get their location we will just send in a reaper or predator and drop 500lbs bombs on them for the lulz.
These usage caps are a devolution of the internet here in the US plain and simple. The ISP's did this shit with dial up until competitors came along and said here's all the usage you can have. Of course with dial up you don't need to have your own infrastructure other than having the connection going out. Now these larger ISP's know they have people by the balls because building new infrastructure takes a ridiculous amount of money. If I were google I would wire the country with fiber to the premises and then offer unlimited usage. If they could do that then you would be looking at the first company to have a market cap over $1 Trillion dollars. In this day and age there is no reason to cap usage. For example I have AT&T DSL (Fuck them, and it's the only option here for high speed. Time Warners line terminates 1/4 of a mile from my house go figure...) and I currently have the 6 Mbps Down/1Mbps Up plan and on a monthly average right now I'm always pushing close to the 150Gb cap. I download maybe 2-3 movies a month if that...I spend most of my time surfing and watching SC2 cast's and that alone is almost enough to bust the cap.
Believe me the first day that there is another option I'm going to take it. Fuck these greedy companies.
As a AT&T customer this bothers the hell out of me. My options for internet are this....
1. Dial Up
2. Satellite
3. DSL through AT&T (current connection)
This is absolutely bull shit the service is already terrible as it is, and I really don't have any broadband choices now they are throwing out a cap on service. I hope they go out of business and lose customers.
Come on now it's Arkansas........everyone knows that these are earthquakes caused by god because gays are allowed to get married. Remember after this is a state full of people who don't believe in evolution.
Ready for the reason to go...
NETWORKING you would be amazed at the job offers you can get while attending anything like this. While I was in the Air Force I attended a few of our major IT conferences, and all these were for the most part was talking with the higher ups about job opportunities when you get out. Trust me go it's worth it.
Yeah no thanks intel after 6 years of buying overpriced motherboards and cpu's I'm ready to switch back to AMD...and everyone wonders why intels stock is slipping, it's because they are losing their touch with the customer base.
Yeah I missed that part. That's a hell of a deal. I'll give you an idea...While I was stationed in Germany I had to pay 99 euro/month for 3Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up. Now keep in mind that I was on cable, they were the only ISP to have cable running to the base and to the dorms, and that was only for internet service (might I add piss poor customer service as well). It really boggles my mind how people can sit here and defend what TWC, and Commcast when it is clear that the people who do use %5 of the bandwidth aren't huring their profits.
This is why TWC needs to be investigated for their practices. It seems to me that the NC government just wants to roll over to TWC wishes. I for one applaude that community that actually went out and did something to improve their service. Also I believe 10/10Mbps for $99 is a fair price as long as the quality is there.
Wrong. The internet backbone is fundamentally limited and, thanks to bittorent, it's finally being congested.
Think about it this way: if everyone maxed out their connections all the time, everyone's connection speed would be a small fraction of what they currently take for granted. As media streaming -- bittorent, netflix, hulu, or whatever -- becomes increasingly popular, connection speeds WILL hit a wall. When people do realize that internet bandwidth is a limited commodity, something is going to have to give.
I, for one, am not going to pay the same monthly fee for 1GB/month (to use basic sites like slashdot) that 100GB/month users use to download illegal media. Sure, I'm opposed to RIAA, as is everyone on slashdot. But there comes a point where I'm fed up with these bandwidth leeches.
See here's the problem...with unlimited bandwidth TW still made money. As a matter of fact their OPS cost went down and their profit went up. So the argument that more bandwidth cost them more $$$ doesn't hold any water.
Tell me about it now with the changes to the Edition sets coming out every year instead of every other year all this is doing is raising the cost to play standard...it almost seems that extended and legacy might be the formats to play that are actually cheaper.
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This is not a technology issue. Three years ago, I walked into a local Burger King and saw a servicewoman using a laptop that was 20% better than my system in every measure, and my laptop at the time was 3 weeks old and Compaq had only sold it for a month when I bought it.
Roughly 2 years ago, however, I saw a recruiter near my apartment. I asked him, if I was to sign up with the Air Force, could he do 2 simple things for me. One, could I get a full waiver from all physical aspects of basic training, and two, could I get guaranteed placement in the cyber warfare division. I was told no on both requests. This is the problem. The US Military is more interested in transferring soldiers who can hack than recruiting actual hackers. This leads to troops who, while they may have some decent level of skill, are not a fifth as competent in anything cyberwarfare does (or rather, should be doing) as most civilian hackers.
Geeks want to defeat America's enemies as badly as anyone else, but we're not going to have our faces slammed into the dirt by some drill sergeant with a chip on his shoulder to do it. We'll never be able to run 10 miles with 100 pounds of gear on our backs, and while most of us could fire a weapon and hit a target, we're not going to go do it in 140 degree heat in the middle of the desert. On the other hand, when the Chinese, Russians, or whoever else are trying to shutdown the power grid for the whole damn east coast, I don't care if the cyberwarfare division can run or shoot or salute - as long as the lights stay on, they can be as sloppy and physically unfit as they like.
This is the problem with the cyberwarfare division. We're unprepared because the Military is too deep into tradition to attract those who are really the "best and the brightest" for the job in question.
Don't worry though. Eventually this'll get farmed out to some defense contractor once the brass realizes it's costing too much and we suck at it, and those companies are more than willing to hire good hackers, whether they can do 50 pushups or not. I just hope it happens before someone like China decides to bite us in the ass.
Ironic that you should mention farming cyber warfare out to contractors (as I know the Air Force already does this, I was enlisted for 4 years with the USAF), and one of the ones that got hacked (Booze Allen Hamilton) is a prime contractor for a lot of AF systems (as is General Dynamics, Diebold, Lockheed Martin, etc...). The problem is that the enemy can adapt a lot faster than our military can because it is one big bureaucracy on top of another bureaucracy, and it takes too many approvals to change anything, or get anything done. Until the mindset at the pentagon changes this task would be more suited for the NSA/CIA to handle because...well let's face it they have a lot more freedom of who they can hire, and how they can operate.
Oh come on now this is the 21st century as soon as we get their location we will just send in a reaper or predator and drop 500lbs bombs on them for the lulz.
Good Will Hunting......... Man if I had mod points right now....+5 because someone actually took the bait.
I mean if Scientology can get accepted and treated like a legit religion (not that any of them are legit) then these guys could pull it off.
These usage caps are a devolution of the internet here in the US plain and simple. The ISP's did this shit with dial up until competitors came along and said here's all the usage you can have. Of course with dial up you don't need to have your own infrastructure other than having the connection going out. Now these larger ISP's know they have people by the balls because building new infrastructure takes a ridiculous amount of money. If I were google I would wire the country with fiber to the premises and then offer unlimited usage. If they could do that then you would be looking at the first company to have a market cap over $1 Trillion dollars. In this day and age there is no reason to cap usage. For example I have AT&T DSL (Fuck them, and it's the only option here for high speed. Time Warners line terminates 1/4 of a mile from my house go figure...) and I currently have the 6 Mbps Down/1Mbps Up plan and on a monthly average right now I'm always pushing close to the 150Gb cap. I download maybe 2-3 movies a month if that...I spend most of my time surfing and watching SC2 cast's and that alone is almost enough to bust the cap. Believe me the first day that there is another option I'm going to take it. Fuck these greedy companies.
As a AT&T customer this bothers the hell out of me. My options for internet are this.... 1. Dial Up 2. Satellite 3. DSL through AT&T (current connection) This is absolutely bull shit the service is already terrible as it is, and I really don't have any broadband choices now they are throwing out a cap on service. I hope they go out of business and lose customers.
Come on now it's Arkansas........everyone knows that these are earthquakes caused by god because gays are allowed to get married. Remember after this is a state full of people who don't believe in evolution.
Ready for the reason to go... NETWORKING you would be amazed at the job offers you can get while attending anything like this. While I was in the Air Force I attended a few of our major IT conferences, and all these were for the most part was talking with the higher ups about job opportunities when you get out. Trust me go it's worth it.
Yeah no thanks intel after 6 years of buying overpriced motherboards and cpu's I'm ready to switch back to AMD...and everyone wonders why intels stock is slipping, it's because they are losing their touch with the customer base.
I'll take power and handling over tech any day...
except for the fact that in a scientific environment things can be proven over and over again to be true...I don't see that happening with religion.
I for one welcome our new found mutated bacteria overlords!!!
This just in Magic: The Gathering players are the "cleanest" people health wise...more @ 11....
WoW is a chore, hell if your in a top tier raiding guild then it's a job. I'm so glad I broke this addiction to this crappy game.
So that's the method Microsoft uses when they write a new operating system.
the parent post should really be moderated troll or flamebait instead of insightful.
This really shouldn't be modded flamebait, if anything it should be interesting because he brings up a lot of valid points.
obvious troll is obvious
Yeah I missed that part. That's a hell of a deal. I'll give you an idea...While I was stationed in Germany I had to pay 99 euro/month for 3Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up. Now keep in mind that I was on cable, they were the only ISP to have cable running to the base and to the dorms, and that was only for internet service (might I add piss poor customer service as well). It really boggles my mind how people can sit here and defend what TWC, and Commcast when it is clear that the people who do use %5 of the bandwidth aren't huring their profits.
This is why TWC needs to be investigated for their practices. It seems to me that the NC government just wants to roll over to TWC wishes. I for one applaude that community that actually went out and did something to improve their service. Also I believe 10/10Mbps for $99 is a fair price as long as the quality is there.
I know my PIMPS are out there 3C3's represent in dis mutha fucka!!!!!!!!!!
Wrong. The internet backbone is fundamentally limited and, thanks to bittorent, it's finally being congested. Think about it this way: if everyone maxed out their connections all the time, everyone's connection speed would be a small fraction of what they currently take for granted. As media streaming -- bittorent, netflix, hulu, or whatever -- becomes increasingly popular, connection speeds WILL hit a wall. When people do realize that internet bandwidth is a limited commodity, something is going to have to give. I, for one, am not going to pay the same monthly fee for 1GB/month (to use basic sites like slashdot) that 100GB/month users use to download illegal media. Sure, I'm opposed to RIAA, as is everyone on slashdot. But there comes a point where I'm fed up with these bandwidth leeches.
See here's the problem...with unlimited bandwidth TW still made money. As a matter of fact their OPS cost went down and their profit went up. So the argument that more bandwidth cost them more $$$ doesn't hold any water.
Tell me about it now with the changes to the Edition sets coming out every year instead of every other year all this is doing is raising the cost to play standard...it almost seems that extended and legacy might be the formats to play that are actually cheaper.
All of that is easier said than done when you have a gun pointed at you 24/7.
Well add that to my list of ISP's I won't touch.