How about putting Cyber Command someplace where there is already a large wired infrastructure, and someplace where talented network engineers would want to live? NEITHER one of those locations is good. If I were a top flight network engineer or analyst, what would I do if I had a choice? Live in The Bay Area of California, Seattle, or go to Offutt...or even worse, freaking Barksdale; both of those places are close to the edge of civilization. There are some redeeming qualities about both places, but none outweigh the fact both are undesirable locations for anyone with a choice. One's a frozen wasteland and the other's America's sweltering armpit.
Still, it's a pretty safe bet AF Cyber Command is going to be put at Barksdale. The provisional command is already there, and most of the people who would have something to do with the decision already live there. Places like Shreveport and Omaha need government pork to survive, and the Louisiana congressional delegation is expert at bringing home pork.
They don't trust you, and they shouldn't. Airmen shouldn't be trusted on their own to do anything without strict guidance and remedial measures readily available. When that happens, abuse happens. Airmen can't be trusted to stay away from malicious links in email; nor to surf only for appropriate content. I was at a base where an airman got caught downloading 1200 pornographic images during an eight hour shift! I can only assume there wasn't "work to do" due to him being super efficient.
Because US government agencies outside the US uniformed services cannot legally perform combat operations. As the US uniformed services are not allowed to perform domestic law enforcement activities except under extraordinary circumstances. There's a pretty clear dividing line between the two.
The US Air Force also built the Titan IV that launched Cassini-Huygens to Saturn, just like it does every vehicle launched from Cape Canaveral. Does that make it a military project?
Technical innovation has always piggybacked on military necessity, from radio, to ENIACS, to the global Internet. The US just happens to be better at it than just about anyone else. Most people just deal with it, or give it little thought.
i think usa has got its own shares of problems. After all, how many nations are there in this world where people are discriminated based on there _skin color_ ?
How many nations...besides ALL of them? http://www.adventuredivas.com/dispatches/ar ticle.v iew?page=225 http://www.friesian.com/caste.htm
The US has its set of unique problems due to its history. As difficult as it has been, the US has chosen to deal with them. Don't think for a minute those problems are indigenous to the US. There are plenty of racists to go around, especially from more "civilized" peoples in Europe and Asia.
If there is any culpability here, it is lazy sys admins who don't patch their machines. How can one blame Microsoft when they had released a patch for the issue more than a month before it's first iteration?
There's plenty of blame for M$ to take, but when the resolution to a problem is clearly out there, that's one they shouldn't.
Wasn't that a NASA imager on the Huygens probe? I suspect that was probably developed using US tax dollars. And so what? There are billions of tax $$$ spent on things that don't amuse the public. Such as building a 4 lane road to nowhere in West Virginia costing millions because a certain Senator wants a pork project in his state.
I also suspect there is something scientic to be gained from receiving imagery from Titan. The fact that we now know there are distinct geographic features on the Saturnian moon proves there is something to be gained from said images.
It's beyond me how there are people complaining about various points of the Cassini-Huygens orbiter/probe. The fact that an international mission was able to cooperate and successfully place a probe on a celestial body over a billion kilometers in nearly as inhospitable a region as possible away speaks volumes as to our ability to get something done as a community when we put our collective minds to it.
Frankly, there wouldn't be as many issues with Windoze if sys admins weren't so lax in applying the patches MS develops. Yeah, once a month patch availability is ridiculous, but also ridiculous is rampant worm propogation a month after a patch has been made available. Lazy sys admins blame MS because it's an easy out. Note how many of them don't really want to migrate to a *nix platform because typically they lack the skills to properly administrate *nix platforms.
That is MS's fault, the mills that create paper MCSE's...a direct result of MS's attempt to certify people without any skill but can answer test questions as competent create situations where we have sys admins who can't do their jobs.
A "problem" meaning Cassini could bring microbes from Earth and contaminate another world. The purpose of crashing Galileo into Jupiter was to prevent a possible crash into Europa. Since Europa may have a warm water ocean below its icy crust, it has the possibility of harboring life.
It is possible that there is now life on Mars, because it was brought there with the Mars rovers.
Nice. Perhaps the thetans have been cleaning off the solar panels on the rovers.
I love cults. They use the most imagination when it comes to our origination.
Wasn't L. Ron Hubbard a con artist before he became the leader of the Church of Scientology?
I think the rovers success encouraged a little ego massage at NASA but after the Shuttle disaster, they needed it. The Cassini-Huygens mission, on the other hand is showing what can happen if there is true international cooperation in space. Up to this point, that mission has been nearly flawless, and even the missteps have been recoverable. Hopefully Europe's Huygens can make a successful descent, and give insight into Titan's composition.
As it is being worked by NIST, there will be no need for changes, cost effective, and implemented perfectly.
Too bad it'll take 10 years to get to reality.
Yes, we have noticed. Perhaps the US should allow the rest of the world to vote in our elections. We know you all have the best interests of the US in your hearts.
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How about putting Cyber Command someplace where there is already a large wired infrastructure, and someplace where talented network engineers would want to live? NEITHER one of those locations is good. If I were a top flight network engineer or analyst, what would I do if I had a choice? Live in The Bay Area of California, Seattle, or go to Offutt...or even worse, freaking Barksdale; both of those places are close to the edge of civilization. There are some redeeming qualities about both places, but none outweigh the fact both are undesirable locations for anyone with a choice. One's a frozen wasteland and the other's America's sweltering armpit. Still, it's a pretty safe bet AF Cyber Command is going to be put at Barksdale. The provisional command is already there, and most of the people who would have something to do with the decision already live there. Places like Shreveport and Omaha need government pork to survive, and the Louisiana congressional delegation is expert at bringing home pork.
They don't trust you, and they shouldn't. Airmen shouldn't be trusted on their own to do anything without strict guidance and remedial measures readily available. When that happens, abuse happens. Airmen can't be trusted to stay away from malicious links in email; nor to surf only for appropriate content. I was at a base where an airman got caught downloading 1200 pornographic images during an eight hour shift! I can only assume there wasn't "work to do" due to him being super efficient.
Because US government agencies outside the US uniformed services cannot legally perform combat operations. As the US uniformed services are not allowed to perform domestic law enforcement activities except under extraordinary circumstances. There's a pretty clear dividing line between the two.
The US Air Force also built the Titan IV that launched Cassini-Huygens to Saturn, just like it does every vehicle launched from Cape Canaveral. Does that make it a military project? Technical innovation has always piggybacked on military necessity, from radio, to ENIACS, to the global Internet. The US just happens to be better at it than just about anyone else. Most people just deal with it, or give it little thought.
i think usa has got its own shares of problems. After all, how many nations are there in this world where people are discriminated based on there _skin color_ ?
r ticle.v iew?page=225
How many nations...besides ALL of them?
http://www.adventuredivas.com/dispatches/a
http://www.friesian.com/caste.htm
The US has its set of unique problems due to its history. As difficult as it has been, the US has chosen to deal with them. Don't think for a minute those problems are indigenous to the US. There are plenty of racists to go around, especially from more "civilized" peoples in Europe and Asia.
If there is any culpability here, it is lazy sys admins who don't patch their machines. How can one blame Microsoft when they had released a patch for the issue more than a month before it's first iteration? There's plenty of blame for M$ to take, but when the resolution to a problem is clearly out there, that's one they shouldn't.
Wasn't that a NASA imager on the Huygens probe? I suspect that was probably developed using US tax dollars. And so what? There are billions of tax $$$ spent on things that don't amuse the public. Such as building a 4 lane road to nowhere in West Virginia costing millions because a certain Senator wants a pork project in his state. I also suspect there is something scientic to be gained from receiving imagery from Titan. The fact that we now know there are distinct geographic features on the Saturnian moon proves there is something to be gained from said images. It's beyond me how there are people complaining about various points of the Cassini-Huygens orbiter/probe. The fact that an international mission was able to cooperate and successfully place a probe on a celestial body over a billion kilometers in nearly as inhospitable a region as possible away speaks volumes as to our ability to get something done as a community when we put our collective minds to it.
Frankly, there wouldn't be as many issues with Windoze if sys admins weren't so lax in applying the patches MS develops. Yeah, once a month patch availability is ridiculous, but also ridiculous is rampant worm propogation a month after a patch has been made available. Lazy sys admins blame MS because it's an easy out. Note how many of them don't really want to migrate to a *nix platform because typically they lack the skills to properly administrate *nix platforms. That is MS's fault, the mills that create paper MCSE's...a direct result of MS's attempt to certify people without any skill but can answer test questions as competent create situations where we have sys admins who can't do their jobs.
A "problem" meaning Cassini could bring microbes from Earth and contaminate another world. The purpose of crashing Galileo into Jupiter was to prevent a possible crash into Europa. Since Europa may have a warm water ocean below its icy crust, it has the possibility of harboring life. It is possible that there is now life on Mars, because it was brought there with the Mars rovers.
The skinny guys probably had empty wrappers lying around, eating 5-6 full meals a day while knowing "Fat Mike" would take the blame. Perfect!
Nice. Perhaps the thetans have been cleaning off the solar panels on the rovers. I love cults. They use the most imagination when it comes to our origination. Wasn't L. Ron Hubbard a con artist before he became the leader of the Church of Scientology?
I think the rovers success encouraged a little ego massage at NASA but after the Shuttle disaster, they needed it. The Cassini-Huygens mission, on the other hand is showing what can happen if there is true international cooperation in space. Up to this point, that mission has been nearly flawless, and even the missteps have been recoverable. Hopefully Europe's Huygens can make a successful descent, and give insight into Titan's composition.
As it is being worked by NIST, there will be no need for changes, cost effective, and implemented perfectly. Too bad it'll take 10 years to get to reality.
Yes, we have noticed. Perhaps the US should allow the rest of the world to vote in our elections. We know you all have the best interests of the US in your hearts.