I am definitely afraid that this will be dominated by contractors, but as I said in a previous post the Air Force is taking steps to create specific career fields for this which will include specialized training.
I can definitely agree that the Air Force does treat Airmen as interchangable cogs, but it's based on career field, not just the virtue of being in the Air Force. All people within a career field will have a broad education over most the tasks they'd be presented with. It's on the job that you gain further in-depth knowledge. You will not see a missile loader in a cyber command type of position. There are specific career fields within the Air Force that would fill those positions. As it is right now, there are separate career fields for computer "operators" and "programmers." Soon those two will be transforming slightly with programmers possibly being phased out. There will be a creation of two new career fields directly relating to network attack and defense that will hopefully be filling such positions. These will not be career fields that Joe-High-School-Graduate will be able to get into. They will be "cross-train" only, meaning that you'd have to be in another Air Force (hopefully related) career field for 3 or 5 years (depending on enlistment term). Hopefully this will be used as a way to filter applicants to the career field and find the ones that do have such a background.
I'm the lead on testing Vista at my base for the Air Force. I have to say that I would not give my advice to procede with a full deployment. However, my voice is meaningless as the Air Force has pretty much already decided to go ahead with it and seems to be doing this as a let's-see-what-breaks-and-mitigate. The sad issue is that MS contractors are hired on to key places. We are essentially paying them to sell us their products. I have literally been told by one of these people that something was not a bug but a feature. It's prettier but what does it offer my people? Our testing has fortunately prompted two people I talked to this weekend to buy Apples for their home use.
I've thought about the redistribution of wealth factor myself. However, there is nothing in place to redistribute the wealth that would normally be given to campaigns. These people would probably just stick it in investments.
There was this one game, it was a either a mod or a repack of the original Doom or Wolfenstein, that was a Noah FPS. Instead of killing things you fed animals and they fell asleep.
I think I read about it from one of Seanbaby's articles. Either his website or The Wave magazine.
I thought it was fake when I first heard of it. Esspecially since it was part of Weird Tales' mailing address:
123 Crooked Lane
King of Prussia, PA 19406-2570
If you look it up, it's an actual address.
It seems to be Cisco's business strategy lately to acquire other (smaller) companys so they don't have to plunk down the cash for R&D and so that they can make knee-jerk reactions to market demands. What results is a product not ready for prime time that they have little understanding of and the TAC's are as confused as the sys-admins. Their infrastructure devices seem to do a fairly decent job, but try to find any information on their IDS (formerly NetRanger). End of life for these things is less than a year away and documentation is sparse at best. At least their message boards confirm that others are seeing the same problems and we're not just crazy.
Some networks like that aren't readily accessible to the internet. With some creative hackers and/or poor security practices by employees there can be ways of getting to that sensetive data from the internet.
It's typically worms that are scanning you. The reason they originate from places like Korea (most the scans I've seen are actually SOUTH Korea, not North.) and Taiwan is that they don't have the network or system security posture most in the west do.
I can tell Austrailia's security isn't as strong as ours as I see some of the same worm looking scans coming from systems there.
After watching the video over and over and frame by frame I can say that it's probably not real. My number one issue with it is that it's too dark, probably to make up for any filtering done from a VHS or Laserdisc.
Secondly and probably my most solid argument, as Anakin fades in he's looking behind himself then it looks like he's looking down at Yoda. Which doesn't make sense as Yoda is looking forward and Obi-Wan is the one that appears to be making eye contact.
Whether publicized on their own web page or not, this is very bad OpSec.
Just because it's something that's widely visible, doesn't mean that it should be so widely discussed. If some one is taking pictures and recording info about the flights in and out of Offutt AFB, suspicions are raised.
I'm sorry, but I don't buy any of the crap people are saying about the changes being made. The comment:
Rumor have circulated about additional changes, but Ward would not deny or confirm them. "We want to encourage our fans to check them out themselves."
is the first official word I've seen that even slightly mentions changes from the 1997 Special Editions.
The quote is just a ploy to get people more curious. It'll probably attract more people by specticle alone than the prospect of alterations repels.
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If you already have a degree you go to Officer Training School to get a comission.
I am definitely afraid that this will be dominated by contractors, but as I said in a previous post the Air Force is taking steps to create specific career fields for this which will include specialized training.
I can definitely agree that the Air Force does treat Airmen as interchangable cogs, but it's based on career field, not just the virtue of being in the Air Force. All people within a career field will have a broad education over most the tasks they'd be presented with. It's on the job that you gain further in-depth knowledge. You will not see a missile loader in a cyber command type of position. There are specific career fields within the Air Force that would fill those positions. As it is right now, there are separate career fields for computer "operators" and "programmers." Soon those two will be transforming slightly with programmers possibly being phased out. There will be a creation of two new career fields directly relating to network attack and defense that will hopefully be filling such positions. These will not be career fields that Joe-High-School-Graduate will be able to get into. They will be "cross-train" only, meaning that you'd have to be in another Air Force (hopefully related) career field for 3 or 5 years (depending on enlistment term). Hopefully this will be used as a way to filter applicants to the career field and find the ones that do have such a background.
Not if you want to do anything other than paperwork and management.
If you RTFA (er... thread), you will see that OP did file a bug report: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8057137#8076944
I'm the lead on testing Vista at my base for the Air Force. I have to say that I would not give my advice to procede with a full deployment. However, my voice is meaningless as the Air Force has pretty much already decided to go ahead with it and seems to be doing this as a let's-see-what-breaks-and-mitigate. The sad issue is that MS contractors are hired on to key places. We are essentially paying them to sell us their products. I have literally been told by one of these people that something was not a bug but a feature. It's prettier but what does it offer my people? Our testing has fortunately prompted two people I talked to this weekend to buy Apples for their home use.
For Neil Gaiman to step in and add his creative genius.
Jesus... Is that you?
I've thought about the redistribution of wealth factor myself. However, there is nothing in place to redistribute the wealth that would normally be given to campaigns. These people would probably just stick it in investments.
That's easy, he's a praticing magician. Not rabbits out of hats kind. The snake-god worshipping kind.
There was this one game, it was a either a mod or a repack of the original Doom or Wolfenstein, that was a Noah FPS. Instead of killing things you fed animals and they fell asleep. I think I read about it from one of Seanbaby's articles. Either his website or The Wave magazine.
I thought it was fake when I first heard of it. Esspecially since it was part of Weird Tales' mailing address: 123 Crooked Lane King of Prussia, PA 19406-2570 If you look it up, it's an actual address.
Or you could just enlist.
It seems to be Cisco's business strategy lately to acquire other (smaller) companys so they don't have to plunk down the cash for R&D and so that they can make knee-jerk reactions to market demands. What results is a product not ready for prime time that they have little understanding of and the TAC's are as confused as the sys-admins. Their infrastructure devices seem to do a fairly decent job, but try to find any information on their IDS (formerly NetRanger). End of life for these things is less than a year away and documentation is sparse at best. At least their message boards confirm that others are seeing the same problems and we're not just crazy.
My mistake, I even use that at home.
I think they mean PGP, not gpg
Some networks like that aren't readily accessible to the internet. With some creative hackers and/or poor security practices by employees there can be ways of getting to that sensetive data from the internet.
It's typically worms that are scanning you. The reason they originate from places like Korea (most the scans I've seen are actually SOUTH Korea, not North.) and Taiwan is that they don't have the network or system security posture most in the west do. I can tell Austrailia's security isn't as strong as ours as I see some of the same worm looking scans coming from systems there.
Soo-See
Problem is, some of the data going to DoD entities may be sensetive. Not something you want spread out to everyone.
After watching the video over and over and frame by frame I can say that it's probably not real. My number one issue with it is that it's too dark, probably to make up for any filtering done from a VHS or Laserdisc. Secondly and probably my most solid argument, as Anakin fades in he's looking behind himself then it looks like he's looking down at Yoda. Which doesn't make sense as Yoda is looking forward and Obi-Wan is the one that appears to be making eye contact.
Whether publicized on their own web page or not, this is very bad OpSec. Just because it's something that's widely visible, doesn't mean that it should be so widely discussed. If some one is taking pictures and recording info about the flights in and out of Offutt AFB, suspicions are raised.
Are geeks not safe anywhere anymore?
Sandisk has had one out of the the Zire 71 for a couple months now. http://www.sandisk.com/retail/c-wifi-sd.asp
I'm sorry, but I don't buy any of the crap people are saying about the changes being made. The comment: Rumor have circulated about additional changes, but Ward would not deny or confirm them. "We want to encourage our fans to check them out themselves." is the first official word I've seen that even slightly mentions changes from the 1997 Special Editions. The quote is just a ploy to get people more curious. It'll probably attract more people by specticle alone than the prospect of alterations repels.