Countries here in Asia aren't as allied to China as you might think. Here's my personal opinion:
Strong USA Allies: Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea
Strong PRC Allies: Mongolia, Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea
Loose or tense relationship to both PRC and USA: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Brunei, Bangladesh, Papau New Guinea
Instead of taking an anti-China strategy, we need to do everything we need to do to woo India and Indonesia - the second and fourth largest countries in the world.
India is easy - they're practically British already, and our mutual business ties provide an easy inroad to strategic partnerships.
Indonesia? We have a sitting President who speaks Bahasa. Indonesia is the next sleeping giant and we squandered our opportunity to win Jakarta.
Yeah...no. I used a previous version of this application I found on DISA's website. It was a simple.NET application that apparently pulled information from the registry of a remote workstation using WMI. If you're slick on Windows and Visual Studio you could have it implemented in a day. The older application wrongly assumed that a number that Windows assigns each unique USB device was your serial number. Maybe that number is a USB-particular serial number - don't know, don't care. The application reported these long, worthless numbers as device serial numbers that didn't match the number printed on the back of an iPod you personally confiscated minutes ago. Scanning is good, scanning is fun - but it doesn't give the warm fuzzy of a NIDS/HIDS sending alerts to your pager when you're trying to sleep...
Less-lethal weapons can actually be more effective than real guns in some ways.
Many Soldiers and Policemen have found that many suspects will flee when a gun is pointed at them. They know that shooting an unarmed suspect is typically unlawful. Of course, not all Soldiers/Policemen follow their Rules of Engagement (ROE) perfectly, but nonetheless making a run for it just might pay off in the short term.
Tasers return the psychological advantage to the warfighter by giving the suspect/enemy assurance that lawful force will be used if the suspect/enemy does not comply with all lawful orders by said warfighter.
Not saying it's a perfect world, not pretending technology is a panacea, but in the gray area a non-lethal weapon can be the least of many evils.
Rule #3 of the 10 Immutable Laws of Security: if a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore.
Story should serve as a good reminder to everyone out there that in the end, no amount of encryption, biometrics, or obscurity will protect your network when a hacker brings a gun. Physical security trumps all.
My MOS (job classification) is an E4 and out position. Basically I have no chance of attaining any leadership skills in my job. Big change from when I joined six years ago. I'm seriously considering leaving communications for something that I can actually advance in, even if I wouldn't be as happy in it, but I could be wrong about that.
I'm guessing you're a 25B in a Signal unit.
Trust me, there are a lot of ways you can learn leadership skills as an E-4. How many SOP's have you written? How many Soldiers have trained to replace you? Have you initiated a risk analysis for the information systems you are responsible for? Have you taught your Linux skills to the Soldiers around you? Have you considered making a website for your company (something small, like a company Craigslist phpBB site)? Have you assembled a continuity book? Have you compiled a formal list of recommendations for your SIGO/CDR/PL/whatever to improve mission effectiveness, efficiency, safety, and lower operational expenses? Have you personally met and networked with your BN/BDE S-6 or lower echelon commo PLT's, DOIM/ESB, and surrounding units at the same echelon? Have you offered other units the opportunity to participate in your own unit-level training (even simple stuff, like "how to make a website")? Have you aggressively pursued cross-training opportunities other units may be willing to offer (generator troubleshooting, COMSEC management, SIPRNET regulations, JNN operators, etc)?
I did all of this and then some when I was an E-3/E-4 in Iraq. There is no reason you should bitch and moan that you're not picking up leadership skills. What schools have you gone to (WLC, BNCOC, Ranger)? How many Soldiers do you supervise? Why are you still an E-4 after six years? If you're stuck in an MTOE position outside your MOS, get a Letter of Release from your CSM and find a job somewhere else like JCU.
As for getting sysadmin rights...feel free to e-mail me and I'll share all kinds of backdoors I've found in the system. They don't hand the reins over easily so I just take 'em.
Look, I hate to nitpick, but while everyone knows what you mean by IEx not everyone knows what ERP and ECM stand for. Although I could go Google it, I find it a little inconsiderate. I work for the government and know a lot of acronyms that I spell out if I don't expect everyone to know them.
Old age isn't a disease. Aging is each species' evolution-tuned means of population control. Some species breed very quickly to account for high probability of death by predators, such as rabbits. Other animals breed extremely slowly, but live long enough to maintain a stable population, such as sharks. Aging is one of the many safeguards that control a species' population to ensure balance is maintained to allow the species to survive. If humans develop an effective means to circumvent aging and significantly extend life expectancy we will have to enforce massive cultural and reproductive changes to avoid unsustainable overpopulation.
You know what really gives you confidence? A gun. But I couldn't recommend that to the OP...I just have this horrible vision of a girl touching his lower back and finding a Glock. Actually that'd be pretty funny - when my CCH gets approved I'll have to try it. If not imprisoned afterward I'll report back on how it went;)
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I have never been to Mongolia, just made that assessment based on something I read and must have misinterpretted. Thanks for correcting me!
Countries here in Asia aren't as allied to China as you might think. Here's my personal opinion:
Strong USA Allies: Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea
Strong PRC Allies: Mongolia, Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea
Loose or tense relationship to both PRC and USA: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Brunei, Bangladesh, Papau New Guinea
Instead of taking an anti-China strategy, we need to do everything we need to do to woo India and Indonesia - the second and fourth largest countries in the world.
India is easy - they're practically British already, and our mutual business ties provide an easy inroad to strategic partnerships.
Indonesia? We have a sitting President who speaks Bahasa. Indonesia is the next sleeping giant and we squandered our opportunity to win Jakarta.
No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for an automobile.
Yeah...no. I used a previous version of this application I found on DISA's website. It was a simple .NET application that apparently pulled information from the registry of a remote workstation using WMI. If you're slick on Windows and Visual Studio you could have it implemented in a day.
The older application wrongly assumed that a number that Windows assigns each unique USB device was your serial number. Maybe that number is a USB-particular serial number - don't know, don't care. The application reported these long, worthless numbers as device serial numbers that didn't match the number printed on the back of an iPod you personally confiscated minutes ago.
Scanning is good, scanning is fun - but it doesn't give the warm fuzzy of a NIDS/HIDS sending alerts to your pager when you're trying to sleep...
Machines with classified information are not connected to any network containing unclassified machines, and definitely not the internet.
About that...
...the spy can be easily identified.
About that...
USB drives are the most likely way to get info off a classified machine, which is precisely why they're forbidden.
About that...
Wow, I'd like to see the value of X that can fit all of those parameters!
Umm, 42?
Less-lethal weapons can actually be more effective than real guns in some ways.
Many Soldiers and Policemen have found that many suspects will flee when a gun is pointed at them. They know that shooting an unarmed suspect is typically unlawful. Of course, not all Soldiers/Policemen follow their Rules of Engagement (ROE) perfectly, but nonetheless making a run for it just might pay off in the short term.
Tasers return the psychological advantage to the warfighter by giving the suspect/enemy assurance that lawful force will be used if the suspect/enemy does not comply with all lawful orders by said warfighter.
Not saying it's a perfect world, not pretending technology is a panacea, but in the gray area a non-lethal weapon can be the least of many evils.
That makes sense.
Cool story, but is it really necessary for people to /. everything Wired does? Aren't most /. readers also Wired readers?
Damn the media!
What you're saying about people paralyzed by fear of guns - I think LTC(R) Dave Grossman described it best as the human aggression is the universal human phobia.
Yeah! The US Constitution allows me to wear my KKK robes in public and exercise my freedom of speech, bitches!
Still doesn't make it a good idea...
ReiserFS really was a killer file system.
LOCAL AREA CONNECTION IS NOW CONNECTED.
Smashed the telephone line? No, that madman kicked the damn telephone pole over!
Hey, I have a printer here! And while we're at it, I've got a bridge to sell you ;)
Rule #3 of the 10 Immutable Laws of Security: if a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore.
Story should serve as a good reminder to everyone out there that in the end, no amount of encryption, biometrics, or obscurity will protect your network when a hacker brings a gun. Physical security trumps all.
Never mind what he's done, can I have your recipe for acronym soup?
Laughing out loud (literally)
;-)
My MOS (job classification) is an E4 and out position. Basically I have no chance of attaining any leadership skills in my job. Big change from when I joined six years ago. I'm seriously considering leaving communications for something that I can actually advance in, even if I wouldn't be as happy in it, but I could be wrong about that.
I'm guessing you're a 25B in a Signal unit.
Trust me, there are a lot of ways you can learn leadership skills as an E-4. How many SOP's have you written? How many Soldiers have trained to replace you? Have you initiated a risk analysis for the information systems you are responsible for? Have you taught your Linux skills to the Soldiers around you? Have you considered making a website for your company (something small, like a company Craigslist phpBB site)? Have you assembled a continuity book? Have you compiled a formal list of recommendations for your SIGO/CDR/PL/whatever to improve mission effectiveness, efficiency, safety, and lower operational expenses? Have you personally met and networked with your BN/BDE S-6 or lower echelon commo PLT's, DOIM/ESB, and surrounding units at the same echelon? Have you offered other units the opportunity to participate in your own unit-level training (even simple stuff, like "how to make a website")? Have you aggressively pursued cross-training opportunities other units may be willing to offer (generator troubleshooting, COMSEC management, SIPRNET regulations, JNN operators, etc)?
I did all of this and then some when I was an E-3/E-4 in Iraq. There is no reason you should bitch and moan that you're not picking up leadership skills. What schools have you gone to (WLC, BNCOC, Ranger)? How many Soldiers do you supervise? Why are you still an E-4 after six years? If you're stuck in an MTOE position outside your MOS, get a Letter of Release from your CSM and find a job somewhere else like JCU.
As for getting sysadmin rights...feel free to e-mail me and I'll share all kinds of backdoors I've found in the system. They don't hand the reins over easily so I just take 'em.
Thank you.
Look, I hate to nitpick, but while everyone knows what you mean by IEx not everyone knows what ERP and ECM stand for. Although I could go Google it, I find it a little inconsiderate. I work for the government and know a lot of acronyms that I spell out if I don't expect everyone to know them.
Right, and the opposite is true for persons who are mentally retarded*. They grow physically, but in behavior they're developmentally stuck.
* I don't know what the politically correct term of the week is so please forgive me if you've got thin skin.
Old age isn't a disease. Aging is each species' evolution-tuned means of population control. Some species breed very quickly to account for high probability of death by predators, such as rabbits. Other animals breed extremely slowly, but live long enough to maintain a stable population, such as sharks. Aging is one of the many safeguards that control a species' population to ensure balance is maintained to allow the species to survive. If humans develop an effective means to circumvent aging and significantly extend life expectancy we will have to enforce massive cultural and reproductive changes to avoid unsustainable overpopulation.
You know what really gives you confidence? A gun. But I couldn't recommend that to the OP...I just have this horrible vision of a girl touching his lower back and finding a Glock. Actually that'd be pretty funny - when my CCH gets approved I'll have to try it. If not imprisoned afterward I'll report back on how it went ;)
Yeah, the Iraqis totally went easy on Jessica Lynch.
Damn HTML tags....it's less than 800 meters away.