It's amazing how many military officers have history and/or political science degrees. For the most part it does them very well, but they often end up way out of their element in Space Command. Then, it matters how they treat their subordinates, who can save their asses. I think a lot of officers with those degrees realize that they are well-prepared for a career in the military and little else and make the military a career while those with technical degrees have options. Therefore, senior levels have an abundance of history majors.
Another interpretation: many of them had already decided on a military career and considered history or polysci to be as good as any other degree for that career choice.
For the Infantry this is likely true. For CYBERCOM, not so much. [As alluded to in parent] Fortunately, there are more than a few officers with advanced technical degrees AND practical expertise AND a grasp of history/geopolitics for that type of work. Many have lots of job options, yet still choose to serve.
Lucasfilm has announced the December release of a 'new director's cut' of The Empire Strikes Back in which Mr. Kirshner will make a cameo appearance as a 'Force ghost' to honor his contribution. This is the perfect, must-have gift for Star Wars fans everywhere.
Lucasfim has also announced the January 2011 release of a 'special, revised director's cut' of The Empire Strikes Back in which the Kirchner Force ghost will be played by Hayden Christensen...
Eventually any pyramid scheme must fall apart. If you are under 50 and expect to get a comfy retirement from Social Security you will likely be very disappointed.
I do not plan to get any useful amount back from Social Security. I do, however, expect Uncle Sugar to keep its mitts off my other retirement preparations.
It will be too politically costly to let Social Security collapse completely. It seems likely that 'means testing' will be implemented. Those with pensions, 401Ks and other savings will get less money from Social Security, probably less than the 'contributions' they made while working. Everyone will get something, even if it is only a token payment, just to say no one is left out.
For those of us who have planned and saved diligently for retirement, the Social Security payment will be something less than a dollar each month. And that, my friends, is change you can believe in.
The reason for preventing the teams from conducting attacks is not legal, it is technical. This exercise is not on a LAN like the typical capture the flag game. The academies are connected via WAN links for the CDX.
Unconstrained force-on-force attacks would probably collapse this network or result in an ugly scrum of flooding attacks and bandwidth starvation, rather than an educational exercise.
I'd be more interested in the permiter defenses they used. Like what kind of IDS/IPS did they use?
The rules require the teams to construct the network within the constraints of a notional budget. This forces the teams to make choices about what infrastructure and security measures to deploy. They cannot have everything they might want; this is a taste of the risk-benefit decisions managers and admins have to make. It is also intended to make it feasible for the Red Team to penetrate a well-watched network, having only a minimal user-base, in only four days.
IPS and other automated response systems are prohibited in the CDX.
For IDS the West Point team used Snort on BSD, with a custom-blended set of rules from VRT and Emerging Threats.
The budget decisions did not support deploying a dedicated firewall device. Firewalling had to be done using Cisco ACLs; however, some creative use of NAT and VLANs helped to make the Red Team's job a bit harder.
In Germany, jaywalkers are fair game. Perhaps it was only coincidence, but I've seen German drivers accelerate or change lanes to (at least) scare the bejeebers out of someone (usually non-german) jaywalking.
Similar caution applies to railroad crossings. I was stopped by 'das blinken licht' at a RR crossing in the german countryside. After sitting, with engine off, for about 5 minutes there was still no sign of a train. Normal American procedure at that point would be to mosey around the gates and cross the tracks anyway. Just as I started thinking this, an electric-lcomotive express train blew through the crossing at >100MPH with no warning and little sound.
Want to load faster? Lock the overhead bins until everyone is seated.
People can just hold their bags on their laps for a few minutes. Then when everyone is aboard, the bins unlock and people can stow their bags. This would avoid the traffic jam in the aisles that occurs during loading while people struggle to lift and stuff bags.
It would also avoid the problem of the weenies that stow their bags in the front despite having a seat aft.
Perhaps labeling bin space to match seat numbers would help, too. If someone else's stuff is in your space, that stuff gets moved under the owner's feet, is gate checked, or is left on the jetway...
PACAF has replaced the satellite links with very long cats. For example, the cat's tail is squeezed at Hickam AFB and the cat meows at Anderson AFB in Guam.
DOD does not make any money from GPS. This service is provided free to anyone [American or otherwise] with a GPS device, courtesy of the US taxpayers. What a deal. Garmin, Magellan and the rest are the ones making money from GPS.
I remember a briefing from an Air Force colonel who was involved with getting GPS deployed. He remarked that is was too bad DOD did not put a nominal $1 per device licensing fee on GPS manufacturers from the beginning. The fees would have paid for the whole system.
Google for "GIS" + "law enforcement" or "disaster response", to see lots of sources.
For example ESRI produces several products for these purposes.
The most recent trends are to add real-time synchronous and asynchronous collaboration and knowledge sharing capabilities on top of the basic GIS "maps + database", to get capabilities like those required in military command and control applications.
As mentioned above, inter-agency cooperation [and inter-operability] is an even harder problem. Remember: "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."
It demonstrates that any of the Vertical Launch System ships [pretty much every CG and DDG in the fleet], located in any ocean, can launch a missile with ASAT capability.
It also demonstrates that those ships could also engage another type of target at similar altitude and speed: ballistic missiles.
The air-launched ASAT program was canceled 20 years ago, long before the F-15's started wearing out. If ASAT was still around, I'd bet that the F-22 would have been spec'ed out to deploy it.
The Navy has been working on sea-based ABM with the SM seriously since the Gulf War and Patriot vs Scud. I'd bet that an ASAT capability (at least for LEOs) was seen as a 'fringe benefit' of the ABM programs. That would save money by eliminating the need for a mostly-redundant air-launched ASAT program.
In theory, the notion of freedom of choice wrt drugs and personal responsibility for any consequences sounds nice. However, in practice, ugly things like this occur to innocent and powerless victims, undermining arguments for legalization.
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You are not the only one. A really good pdf reader for papers, with a bibliographic database (ala End Note) would be great.
I hate printing out papers that will only get one reading then end up in a file folder.
I'd actually like to see online publication of research papers get beyond 'camera ready' pdfs. The page format for a printed conference proceedings or a journal is not the best for on-screen reading, whether computer or e-book device. The two column format is a pain for on-screen reading.
It would be really nice if the documents were offered in formats that let us easily adapt to reading on something other than paper. Yes, a pdf can be set up to support Reflow, but it seems few research papers are tagged to do so properly.
drat...SuperKendal beat me to that follow up question. [I'd mod you up if I had points.]
I'd add: "You also made a point of giving the man his medicine right in front of the snoobs at the drug store, just to highlight how inane they were being, right?"
How about people sitting at the back of the cabin who toss their bags into overhead bins at the front? I guess so they don't have to lug their stuff all the way down the aisle.
Saw some weenie do this one time while we were in the cattle line to the seats; chucked his stuff into the bin by my seat as he continued aft. Was desperately tempted to grab his bag and carry it off the plane, in his full view, while he was stuck in the disembarkation cattle line. Then maybe just toss it aside on the jetway. Oh well...next time...
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Someone has a sense of humor or...
(don_tinfoil_hat) ...is trying to send a secret message. (doff_tinfoil_hat)
In related news, Kevin Mitnick is elected President of Ecuador with 121% of the popular vote.
Cassette drive roulette:
>cload
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.........eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.........eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........
"Yes, I know you are only talking about corrections, but my point is, who gets to decide what a "correction" is?
George Lucas...duh!
short answer == 42
Now, what was the question?
It's amazing how many military officers have history and/or political science degrees. For the most part it does them very well, but they often end up way out of their element in Space Command. Then, it matters how they treat their subordinates, who can save their asses. I think a lot of officers with those degrees realize that they are well-prepared for a career in the military and little else and make the military a career while those with technical degrees have options. Therefore, senior levels have an abundance of history majors.
Another interpretation: many of them had already decided on a military career and considered history or polysci to be as good as any other degree for that career choice.
For the Infantry this is likely true. For CYBERCOM, not so much. [As alluded to in parent]
Fortunately, there are more than a few officers with advanced technical degrees AND practical expertise AND a grasp of history/geopolitics for that type of work. Many have lots of job options, yet still choose to serve.
Lucasfilm has announced the December release of a 'new director's cut' of The Empire Strikes Back in which Mr. Kirshner will make a cameo appearance as a 'Force ghost' to honor his contribution. This is the perfect, must-have gift for Star Wars fans everywhere.
Lucasfim has also announced the January 2011 release of a 'special, revised director's cut' of The Empire Strikes Back in which the Kirchner Force ghost will be played by Hayden Christensen...
U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8
The Congress shall have Power...
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
Does not specify 'only in times of war.'
This is scaremongering with no basis in reality.
Not scaremongering, just a set up for a joke. Sheesh.
Eventually any pyramid scheme must fall apart. If you are under 50 and expect to get a comfy retirement from Social Security you will likely be very disappointed. I do not plan to get any useful amount back from Social Security. I do, however, expect Uncle Sugar to keep its mitts off my other retirement preparations.
It will be too politically costly to let Social Security collapse completely. It seems likely that 'means testing' will be implemented. Those with pensions, 401Ks and other savings will get less money from Social Security, probably less than the 'contributions' they made while working. Everyone will get something, even if it is only a token payment, just to say no one is left out.
For those of us who have planned and saved diligently for retirement, the Social Security payment will be something less than a dollar each month. And that, my friends, is change you can believe in.
Now wait a centon, wouldn't the conversion to metric time resolve all those problems with 12 versus 24 hour time?
We are on the verge of having true DEDs (Dark Emitting Diodes)
The reason for preventing the teams from conducting attacks is not legal, it is technical. This exercise is not on a LAN like the typical capture the flag game. The academies are connected via WAN links for the CDX.
Unconstrained force-on-force attacks would probably collapse this network or result in an ugly scrum of flooding attacks and bandwidth starvation, rather than an educational exercise.
I'd be more interested in the permiter defenses they used. Like what kind of IDS/IPS did they use?
The rules require the teams to construct the network within the constraints of a notional budget. This forces the teams to make choices about what infrastructure and security measures to deploy. They cannot have everything they might want; this is a taste of the risk-benefit decisions managers and admins have to make. It is also intended to make it feasible for the Red Team to penetrate a well-watched network, having only a minimal user-base, in only four days.
IPS and other automated response systems are prohibited in the CDX.
For IDS the West Point team used Snort on BSD, with a custom-blended set of rules from VRT and Emerging Threats.
The budget decisions did not support deploying a dedicated firewall device. Firewalling had to be done using Cisco ACLs; however, some creative use of NAT and VLANs helped to make the Red Team's job a bit harder.
Similar caution applies to railroad crossings. I was stopped by 'das blinken licht' at a RR crossing in the german countryside. After sitting, with engine off, for about 5 minutes there was still no sign of a train. Normal American procedure at that point would be to mosey around the gates and cross the tracks anyway. Just as I started thinking this, an electric-lcomotive express train blew through the crossing at >100MPH with no warning and little sound.
When the Germans say 'verboten', pay attention.
People can just hold their bags on their laps for a few minutes. Then when everyone is aboard, the bins unlock and people can stow their bags. This would avoid the traffic jam in the aisles that occurs during loading while people struggle to lift and stuff bags.
It would also avoid the problem of the weenies that stow their bags in the front despite having a seat aft.
Perhaps labeling bin space to match seat numbers would help, too. If someone else's stuff is in your space, that stuff gets moved under the owner's feet, is gate checked, or is left on the jetway...
PACAF has replaced the satellite links with very long cats. For example, the cat's tail is squeezed at Hickam AFB and the cat meows at Anderson AFB in Guam.
I remember a briefing from an Air Force colonel who was involved with getting GPS deployed. He remarked that is was too bad DOD did not put a nominal $1 per device licensing fee on GPS manufacturers from the beginning. The fees would have paid for the whole system.
Google for "GIS" + "law enforcement" or "disaster response", to see lots of sources. For example ESRI produces several products for these purposes.
The most recent trends are to add real-time synchronous and asynchronous collaboration and knowledge sharing capabilities on top of the basic GIS "maps + database", to get capabilities like those required in military command and control applications.
As mentioned above, inter-agency cooperation [and inter-operability] is an even harder problem. Remember: "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."
It also demonstrates that those ships could also engage another type of target at similar altitude and speed: ballistic missiles.
The air-launched ASAT program was canceled 20 years ago, long before the F-15's started wearing out. If ASAT was still around, I'd bet that the F-22 would have been spec'ed out to deploy it.
The Navy has been working on sea-based ABM with the SM seriously since the Gulf War and Patriot vs Scud. I'd bet that an ASAT capability (at least for LEOs) was seen as a 'fringe benefit' of the ABM programs. That would save money by eliminating the need for a mostly-redundant air-launched ASAT program.
The two year old son of as meth addict mom was tossed off a bridge onto the H-1 highway by their meth addict neighbor. From the Honolulu Star Bulletin: http://starbulletin.com/2008/01/20/news/story02.html
In theory, the notion of freedom of choice wrt drugs and personal responsibility for any consequences sounds nice. However, in practice, ugly things like this occur to innocent and powerless victims, undermining arguments for legalization.
In Soviet Russia, laptop overclocks YOU.
I'd actually like to see online publication of research papers get beyond 'camera ready' pdfs. The page format for a printed conference proceedings or a journal is not the best for on-screen reading, whether computer or e-book device. The two column format is a pain for on-screen reading.
It would be really nice if the documents were offered in formats that let us easily adapt to reading on something other than paper. Yes, a pdf can be set up to support Reflow, but it seems few research papers are tagged to do so properly.
I'd add: "You also made a point of giving the man his medicine right in front of the snoobs at the drug store, just to highlight how inane they were being, right?"
Saw some weenie do this one time while we were in the cattle line to the seats; chucked his stuff into the bin by my seat as he continued aft. Was desperately tempted to grab his bag and carry it off the plane, in his full view, while he was stuck in the disembarkation cattle line. Then maybe just toss it aside on the jetway. Oh well...next time...