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by phaus 12y ago
I meant no offense.
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by phaus 12y ago
In case you didn't notice, Manning was acquitted for revealing documents that proved government wrongdoing. She was also acquitted of the ridiculous charge of aiding the enemy. She was, however, convicted of leaking 700000 unrelated do
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by phaus 12y ago
Good point. I had forgotten about the massive amount of debt most doctors find themselves in.
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by phaus 12y ago
After allowances, they are making about 52-70k depending on which rank they hold. That's not bad for what they do, but if they were actual doctors it would be terrible. Its also not a technical job in the traditional sense, 70Ds typica
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by phaus 12y ago
>though that company does sponsor a TA unit so was fairly cool with it. Do they have a choice in the matter? I'm just curious because here in the U.S. companies are obligated to hold your position for you until you get back.
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by phaus 12y ago
>But they would not be low ranking soldiers all IT professionals would have to start at officer level. Officer income is higher than Enlisted income, but it still starts at around 34k for a single person. Depending on where you live, it
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by phaus 12y ago
>If you change the rules for cyber positions, you must consider changing them for all positions. Rank and pay scales are the same across any GS position and across military ranks at this point.. This isn't entirely true. Unlike the
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by phaus 12y ago
>My surprise had more to do with learning that cyberwarefare reservists exist.. I can see how you would be surprised. It seems counter-intuitive, but its actually normal for reservists in technical fields to be better at their jobs than
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by phaus 12y ago
>Doctors and pilots get paid reasonably well by the military. Doctors are officers. This means that they get paid much more than Soldiers, but its still a laughably low amount when you compare it to a civilian doctor's salary. Pilot
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by phaus 12y ago
Not every talented person thinks the exact same way that you do. Its a fact that the way the military operates automatically excludes a large part of the talent pool that simply doesn't want to deal with all the bullshit, but everyone
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by phaus 12y ago
>On the other hand, while this is admittedly very anecdotal, one really obvious common thread that I see in the vast majority of great hackers I've met has been a distrust (if not borderline disdain) for authority and seemingly need
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by phaus 12y ago
What kind of a shitty parent leaves small objects unattended around small children? Only a complete moron would do that. What about scissors? Pencils? Knives? Everyone has these things in their homes, and you could just as easily leave them
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by phaus 12y ago
>It's true that most Americans would shit their pants at 6 figure soldiers, but few military skills are so valued by the open market. Infantrymen won't have marketable skills, but we are talking about military security analysts
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by phaus 12y ago
You can buy water and cars too. A set of zenmagnets is no more a suicide via intestinal pinching kit than a gallon of water is a drowning kit. There are millions of things on the market that you can kill yourself with; when would you say th
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by phaus 12y ago
John is correct. There are different types of extra pay, but they don't have anything for tech related jobs. The allowances in the Army are for things like jumping out of a plane, scuba diving, foreign languages, combat pay, etc. The A
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by phaus 12y ago
>I mean no disrespect to the soldiery, but why use soldiers for this, and not the DIA/NSA/CIA/various other TLAs? I specifically said that I wasn't advocating this as a military mission. I was just stating that if it
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by phaus 12y ago
>If we're trying to use uniformed military troops to hack servers remotely, we deserve to lose any 'cyber war.' Not all Soldiers are incompetent. Some of the most brilliant people I've met are people that I met while
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by phaus 12y ago
> I think the "cyberwarriors" would/should argue that their machines are their weapons and so should have similar latitude. They have argued and lost because the big picture military only cares about PT tests, marksmanship
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by phaus 12y ago
Part of it is that the government doesn't want to, the other part of it is that the American people would shit their pants if they found out that a low-ranking Soldier was making 6 figures a year off of taxpayer money. People resent it
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by phaus 12y ago
>These are all problems that are slowly working their way up the policy chains. It doesn't matter that the problems are working their way up the policy chains if they are only going to die when they get to the top. You yourself admi
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by phaus 12y ago
>I'll just use a python wrapper around libpcap then. Must be nice, last government SOC I worked in, we could only script with powershell 1.0 installed. Sadly, that was just a year ago. We had tcpdump and Wireshark, but we weren&#x27
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by phaus 12y ago
Gotta love our Visa system. Oh, you play videogames professionally? Have a Visa! Oh, you are starting a business? Our economy's bad, but we like it that way. Starting a business might change that. Why don't you learn to play Leagu
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by phaus 12y ago
>higher than GS15s? Yeah, I forgot to mention Congress and the SES(the higher than GS-15) guys. Yet, even when there is a simple set of program requirements, the guys I already mentioned are going to keep adding shit on until the very en
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by phaus 12y ago
Pretty much all government IT projects have ill-defined requirements because GS-15s and Field Grade Military Officers are like little kids. They change their minds frequently and they are so used to having their way that they simply won&#x2
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by phaus 12y ago
>These hackers primarily steal from DoD companies right? They target anyone that has proprietary information that they can use to make money. I'm sure there are plenty of DoD targets, but these are outnumbered by private companies w
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by phaus 12y ago
Thanks for responding. I guess that its a good thing that they don't deliver to my area, ~$3 for 10 fl oz. (When you buy in bulk) is pretty steep. Wal-Mart carries Vita Coco @ $4 for 33 fl oz. Again, the freshness seems to vary so its
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by phaus 12y ago
>Besides, it's never a purely technological advantage. There needs to be doctrine and well-trained troops in place too. I was a Soldier for over a decade. Engineers and computer scientists are what makes our military great. Most nat
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by phaus 12y ago
Is Copra available in the US? So far the best I've had is Vita. Unfortunately sometimes it tastes great and sometimes it tastes pretty bad. For some strange reason, the smaller bottles of vita always taste bad.
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by phaus 12y ago
Nobody said that white people are oppressed. There is some kind of communication breakdown going on because you keep accusing myself and other individuals of claiming that we as white men are afraid of being oppressed. No one under my comme
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by phaus 12y ago
>Focus solely on individual behavior when addressing racism will only cause institutional racism to be hidden in society. I'm not focusing on individual behavior. As a matter of fact, I wasn't talking about behavior at all. I w

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