17D_guy

Getting really tired of retirees and/or people who served over 20 years ago saying how much more hardcore they were or how easy we have it now. Thanks for your service, shut your damn mouth. You're service did not included the big issues the common Airman (or other service member) is facing today (both O & E). Budget cuts (personnel, training, and equipment), SARC, Alcohol is the de-bil, etc. Our new guys aren't "soft" and "not dedicated." They reacting to a command environment that's pulling them so many different ways, not giving them tools, and judging them harshly for it when they come up lacking. Or, just hammering them for nothing. I've got enough retired E7 DAF Civ's (who wrote and sourced their position when they retired) telling me how cush my job is thinking we have the manning, funding, training from when they retired still. I don't need it from a (fellow) REMF O as well.

Huh. Petty. Amusing, indicative of a problem and a bit of "I'll burn all this shit down to get you." But petty and I approve.

My personal favorite part from the article If you F up because of our unclear guidance, and even if your peers do it, it's still your fault.

Whoa there with the strong language! Does SpaceX use their rocket engines or do they use their own? I don't think the hiring was particularly bad, just interesting. Vandenberg AFB had a Wing CC that retired and got a job with the primary services/tech contractor on base right away. That whole place is.. awful.

So now this is happening - https://www.dallasnews.com/business/business-headlines/20140523-spacex-ceo-suggests-rivals-hire-has-conflict.ece While it's no tanker fiasco (what a wild ride that was) it's interesting.

My muni water and power would care very much if the next town north was getting their water/power from them. If there's a lack of competition, and a single provider as most people actually have, then it's very much like a utility. Power was all commercial development until large providers consolidated power and it turned out they were screwing their customers. Then it became heavily regulated. Now electricity is considered a utility, not a "nice to have." The same will happen to the internet, probably in our lifetime once the "old folks" die off. https://burnanenergyjournal.com/the-electricity-grid-a-history/ I'm not sure I understand your statement of data increasing with rate. Perhaps I'll address it below. There are rates/classes/tiers for ISPs already - I pay more because I want a faster connection. Providers pay more because they want more bandwidth. If they exceed their cap/limit they pay more. Ever seen the reddit/slashdot/digg hug of death even on Amazon AWS hosted sites? So now content providers get to pay more for bandwidth... and priority? Can I pay to make the airplane fly faster or move the destination closer (net example - peering)? You're going to use auto/airlines as examples of mature markets in comparison to the "rising cost" of developing on the internet? Those take massive capital in the beginning and they take even more capital to start in now. However, it's still being done (Tesla, Ryan Air, etc.) with the power of the internet lowering those barriers. Again, look at twitter or facebook.. hell pinterest (sp?), should they have the same capital requirements as the auto/airlines? I don't think you are saying that but it's the way it came across. While that's a sign of a mature market, I don't think the same forces will be at play in the online world. Instead of massive capital it's going to be investments over customer time and popularity that'll be barrier to entry. Look at what's happened to facebook as they got mom & dad on with the kids. Look at what's happened to twitter since they decided to go more facebook-y. For your last bit - so you want the companies to get better at bribing lobbying our politicians? How about Tesla? A great company with a new, exciting, eco-friendly product. Try buying one in TX or NJ (sorry Jarhead?). Guess they didn't "grow up" fast enough while they were busy innovating. After The New Jersey Ban, Here's Where Tesla Can (And Cannot) Sell Its Cars

There's a thread for that.

Wireless is pretty much broadband. Yea.. totally. Ugh.. oh look at this - https://bgr.com/2014/05/20/comcast-twc-customer-satisfaction-survey-study/ . Yep, lets give these folks more power

Saw that email and deleted it immediately. If they're going to keep saying personnel costs are breaking the DoD but the F-35 is fine I'm not going to waste time reading their financial advice. I know how to balance a checkbook and the pennies they're giving me to maintain the base comm are getting stretched enough to do my depression era grandparents proud. Wow.. good job Grandpa. Actually all the areas I've lived in the Congress.. persons had a template on their website to fill out. It then gets routed to their staff to handle, if they're so inclined (Good luck residents of CA). As always, good luck to all of you.

That's cool. So when the next twitter, facebook or whatever small start up happens, starts getting traffic and then gets a knock on the door from the "not-monopoly" ISPs for more cash what do they do? Just happens the ISP'll happily take a stake in the company to make sure their traffic doesn't get moved to the slow lane. How nice of them. Most ISP's require at least year to multi-year contracts with hefty breakage fees. Sure.. people will just dump their ISP for the other one servicing their area that I'm sure will also be in negotiations for higher fees for content delivery as well. You're right.. I've got 2 providers in my area 1 for cable (which is crap from 3pm-10pm) and 1 for DSL (which is much more expensive). That's real competition. Now why Cox doesn't come down to my area that Time Warner servers.. oh.. that's because they're not allowed to. Every organization on the Internet is against it. The EFF in particular and all they care about is true electronic freedom. Somehow, these giant companies can't seem to build out their infrastructure and not get rated "worst customer service," but they'll have the customers by the balls and the content providers by the ass, and you're cool with that. Are you also cool with the rising costs, lower speeds and overall poor service the major players in ISP are providing? Declining service for more money, the American Dream! Are you excited about the mergers going on? Should the gov't be able to say anything about those either? You know in the Comcast-Time Warner merger they're claiming wireless providers are adequate competition? Besides it's not like the "not-monopolies" would ever collude to keep out competition - Doh, those pesky gov't trying to get into the market and ruining everything! They should just leave it to business. https://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2012-12-27/u-s-internet-users-pay-more-for-slower-service Or not. Nope.. they'll do it from home to their network, and now they're trying to do it from content to their network. Again, what if some other players don't pony up? Skype, Ebay, craigslist, USAA, Foxnews, CNN, assorted video/porn site. Data is data, and the 1-0's should be treated the same period. I pay for access, they pay for access, all based on a set speed. It should not matter where it goes or who it comes from. I don't pay for different water or power from special wells or generators. The internet is, for all purposes, a utility. Yes, they're more nimble, but I wouldn't give you odds on more powerful. Look above at the laws and the difficulty Google's had in rolling out Google Fiber in some places. You really want these guys providing more service - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAo5GgaJmsA

It's not the customer who's willing to pay more, they already do that with offering higher connection services (which are dubious at best). The ISP's are trying to charge the content providers another fee (YouTube, NetFlix, PronHub, etc) for "faster lanes" to their already paying customers. Charge 'em coming, charge 'em going. Then those services that don't pay for faster lanes go on "normal" lanes that I'm sure the ISP's will keep at the same pace. Of course the complaint is that they can't keep upgrading their equipment and services unless they get this additional money.. even though they're a monopoly in almost all areas. Then there's this - $200 Billion to build out the infrastructure through additional charges that went nowhere but to their pockets. https://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html This is bad bad bad, and you should express your displeasure to the majority of Republican Senators that support it.

Isn't this the... 3rd alcohol reduction program they've attempted in the past 5 years? Wasn't there some culture thing, and a 3-3-1-1... something? Did those work to lower sexual assault?

Wasn't aware that was the only requirement for a CC allowing you to extend.

Also, this https://bgr.com/2014/05/16/why-is-my-cable-bill-so-high/

I'm sure that upcoming merger will help us all get better service and access. Edit - to add to Vertigo's post - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/bankrolled-by-broadband-donors-lawmakers-lobby-fcc-on-net-neutrality/

Latest - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/elon-musks-spacex-granted-injunction-in-rocket-launch-suit-against-lockheed-boeing/2014/04/30/4b028f7c-d0cd-11e3-937f-d3026234b51c_story.html

You'd think they'd cover this in SABC.

What?

SpaceX is suing to be considered along with ULA, the Boeing/Lockheed venture, to launch "national security" satellites into space. SpaceX is claiming to be able to launch for $300 million less than the current contract which was written on a non-competitive basis. This is the kinda thing I've been waiting for, though not sure how successful they're going to be since they're not even certified yet. Given the weight that the current contract owners have, success is unlikely in this first go around. However, note that - Perhaps there's some good to come of it. https://io9.com/elon-musk-spacex-will-file-suit-against-the-u-s-gover-1568027055 the site SpaceX is using for publicity in the suit: https://www.freedomtolaunch.com/

And then claim personnel costs are too high and cut the rest of us... while creating new GO billets.

Not sure what they're doing with the new TCO doesn't exist..but be ready for inspection nonsense. NWS is network warfare. I've said before how convoluted AFSPC has made the cyber AOR, this NWS isn't any better. So, question because I don't know/haven't had to do it, when do you have to send PII out of the .mil domain on the regular? Realize that Google has access to that information now, and I'm not sure what the NWS' can pick up at the proxies/gateways. So while it might work, it's not "right", and it'll probably get caught at some point. Why not just mail it?

Yep. Best part about where I'm at.. we lost the ability to log. So we're making people use PINs or get "Class-A" lines (unrestricted) and can't verify anything. Never mind the fact almost no-one has a local number anymore. Damn.. I'm so used to this stupidity I didn't think we could change it. If Travis has, perhaps we can do something. For these issues call your CS Ops Flt CC and he should be able to hook you up as long as he's not a douche and remember what the mission is. Also, the AF just did away with the AFI requiring the additional duty position, TCO - Telephone Control Officer, in each squadron who would verify phones/pins...but requires it as an inspectable program. Figure that one out.

I finished my paper and mandatory video games. Yes and yes. I do believe the Wing CC is involved as well, which seems to me an amazing waste of time. I believe PII violations, at least in ACC, are tracked at MAJCOM per base. We do need to get better about policing up PII and spillage issues. We had a spillage here where over 300 initial users were effected and then it started hitting distro lists. There's been a rash of them at ACC recently and it's shut down at least one MAJCOM office for a few days. It was such a "big deal" that the ACC A6 mandated all communication with that office will now take place over SIPR. Spillages suck up so much Comm Sq time. PII not so much, at least on the Ops side. You guys see the confiscation of phones and computers, but the reports we're required to write for them are rather extensive and go.. nowhere. I know there used to be some MAJCOM level metrics for it, but I haven't seen any in awhile. No one seems to be punished for spilling SIPR to NIPR or higher. Maybe I'm just more paranoid about that sort of thing. I'm not sure the impetus behind the massive focus behind it since I was in a joint community at the time. To be honest.. they should treat the spillages like they're treating PII. Why we can't have gateways that scan for PII that's unencrypted, (SSN, phone number, etc, are a common data format), kill the email and send a note is beyond me. You should be able to expand the distro list in your To: box which will break out each individual addressee. Usually there's a little (+) before the name. However, I'll check into it. Org boxes that regularly need to send/receive PII can get token/certs for encryption.

Exactly. However, "Comm." (as in your local Sq) did not create the current IAO position. Before what it's become now, it was a very useful additional duty to have in every Sq on base. You guys are now abused, and I apologize (for what it's worth) for the hell it's causing. We're fighting the certification requirements, and ACC A6 is aware of it as well. Not the 3D's fault and wouldn't fix the problem. Probably have some shoe E9 down their quickly. BREAK Someone bitch about something else, I'm tired of posting the awfulness that is the new AF Cyber as I'm writing a Master's paper on a Friday night.

My fault; I wasn't clear. You can fill out your own tickets online through the ESD portal. Go ahead and let me know which option is to allow access to an org box that a normal user would understand. I've been doing this job for over a decade and I was still confused given the myriad of options. Why would you assume we wouldn't? We're getting ready to slay this beast where I'm at. However, the tools (WebDRA) that AFSPC/ESD/Whomever have left us require about 10 min to change permissions on a single folder doing security groups the right way. Lag, lag, lag.. timeout. Gotta restart the app, wait for it to register, rinse/repeat. We've started a swing shift to see if the lag improves during off hours. Then we get into the possible foul ups since we've had (local) admin's for years assign personnel directly to folders that the local CS has to clean up..and then implement security groups, with the aforementioned crap tools. Make sure all the security groups are built correctly (hello IAOs), rip the individual users off the folders, and then add security groups. All the while hoping the tools located at another base don't lag/die, or the Domain Controllers don't lag/die. How hard is that to do? We're still attempting to do it in just the test Sq (Comm) months later. We've called around and most bases either are just letting the tickets stack up for their users, or are assigning the permissions to individuals...the old/hard way, which is now easier since the tools are crap. Oh.. and the other option is some bases (ex. Beale) are using other bases (ex. Edwards) admin tools since their lag is lower. Why? Who knows, certainly not the ESD or higher level admins. You guys want to talk about leaders having no idea what's going on at base level? Talk to your Comm. Sq CC or his/her Ops Flt CC and the challenges they're attempting to overcome. We're getting hammered for "poor metrics"...which the ESD can't/won't explain to us. Last grenade - AFSPC is starting to ask that all IAO's be DoD 8570 certified (Sec+, Net+, etc) to hold that additional duty. I have Lt Col's that are IAOs due to manning/flying schedules. This is the same training my Amn are required to graduate tech school and be awarded their 3 level.