Did no one else notice this is from February? How is this "news"? I know it's still happening, but come on, did someone just feel like digging up anti-M$ dirt?.
This is fantastic. I personally LOVE how every WoW server's economy was total garbage, with huge variances in supply and demand, where low-level items are priceless and the highend stuff is vendor trash. I can't wait to see what happens when Blizzard applies real currency to their systems.
Firstly, yes, condescension from a sailor to a Marine. Very funny. Why don't you just go back to driving the boat for us?
Secondly, the main point I was trying to get across was how slow the US military is to adopt new policies and procedures outside of their normal scope of operations. Primarily in that while yes, we have network technicians, and guys who can do a little packet sniffing, most of their duties are in support of intelligence operations. The gathering and exploitation of data, not overt actions such as electronic attack. Jamming all the WiFi in a town is not the same thing as hacking into the bad guy's machine and stealing his internetz. It'll be a long time before the rank and file have honest to God white hats in uniform.
Just so it's more clear that I'm not talking out of my ass, here, I'm a 2671, Middle East Cryptologic Linguist. I'm an intelligence operator who speaks Arabic.
I'm a currently-serving active duty Marine, and the fact that we're not ready for cyberwarfare is symptomatic of our way of doing things. The problem with the US military changing its ways of doing anything is that if there isn't a group of people already trained for the purpose of that new thing, its not gonna get done. Every Marine/sailor/soldier/airman/coastie has a specific job designation when they join up. They may do certain things outside of their scope at times, but "innovation" isn't commonplace or encouraged.
It will be years if not a decade or more before an entirely new MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) is created and a training program implemented for the single purpose of creating "cyber-soldiers". Until that happens, the military will rely on other assets within the federal services, or contractors.
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Did no one else notice this is from February? How is this "news"? I know it's still happening, but come on, did someone just feel like digging up anti-M$ dirt?.
This is fantastic. I personally LOVE how every WoW server's economy was total garbage, with huge variances in supply and demand, where low-level items are priceless and the highend stuff is vendor trash. I can't wait to see what happens when Blizzard applies real currency to their systems.
Firstly, yes, condescension from a sailor to a Marine. Very funny. Why don't you just go back to driving the boat for us? Secondly, the main point I was trying to get across was how slow the US military is to adopt new policies and procedures outside of their normal scope of operations. Primarily in that while yes, we have network technicians, and guys who can do a little packet sniffing, most of their duties are in support of intelligence operations. The gathering and exploitation of data, not overt actions such as electronic attack. Jamming all the WiFi in a town is not the same thing as hacking into the bad guy's machine and stealing his internetz. It'll be a long time before the rank and file have honest to God white hats in uniform. Just so it's more clear that I'm not talking out of my ass, here, I'm a 2671, Middle East Cryptologic Linguist. I'm an intelligence operator who speaks Arabic.
I'm a currently-serving active duty Marine, and the fact that we're not ready for cyberwarfare is symptomatic of our way of doing things. The problem with the US military changing its ways of doing anything is that if there isn't a group of people already trained for the purpose of that new thing, its not gonna get done. Every Marine/sailor/soldier/airman/coastie has a specific job designation when they join up. They may do certain things outside of their scope at times, but "innovation" isn't commonplace or encouraged. It will be years if not a decade or more before an entirely new MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) is created and a training program implemented for the single purpose of creating "cyber-soldiers". Until that happens, the military will rely on other assets within the federal services, or contractors.