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When GEN Schoomaker came off of retirement to be CSA his wife received a computer generated condolences letter, as DFAS interpreted the termination of his retirement pay to mean his death.
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SimonCat posted:When GEN Schoomaker came off of retirement to be CSA his wife received a computer generated condolences letter, as DFAS interpreted the termination of his retirement pay to mean his death. Yup, that's the one. They stopped paying him as well.
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Oct 20, 2019 20:50
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Back 1991-1992 Army times ran a story about some e1/e2 at in one of the 82nd units who wasn't paid for a couple of years. Lived in the barracks, ate at the mess hall, etc. Collected a back pay check of like $65k.
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Syrian Lannister posted:some e1/e2 . . . Somewhere, a thousand car salesmen got rock hard simultaneously.
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Oct 20, 2019 21:07
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I love giving the federal government a multi-year interest free 65k loan wait no I don't
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Oct 20, 2019 21:20
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That must have been one bitchin’ Camaro.
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To put this in layman's terms imagine trying to make a TurboTax and payroll systemthat works flawlessly with every level of income from minimum wage to doing the taxes for a multi-billionare who has multiple investments, real property, yachts, etc... And your starting point is a billion lines of uncommented COBALT that was first coded in the 1960s I have zero experience with the system but I was pentagon payroll adjacent while working on a program for the VA (get hosed mumps) and the horror stories were impressive. Edit: mumps is a old language used mostly in hospitals and financial systems. Every command can be abbreviated to one letter and comments on mumps code apparently wasn't very popular among older programers, which generally lead to having to analyze every. single. loving. part. to understand what the gently caress was going on. Smiling Jack fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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Oct 20, 2019 21:37
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Comments are a double edged sword. Why is good, how is bad, why I didn’t do it that other way is South Park levels of in the middle. *pushes glasses up nose*
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Oct 20, 2019 21:48
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In a poor decision, the Canadian federal pay system was revised to modern US military standards, except it was all written in modern languages by programmers over the past couple of years
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Oct 20, 2019 23:04
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Nebakenezzer posted:In a poor decision, the Canadian federal pay system was revised to modern US military standards, except it was all written in modern languages by programmers over the past couple of years Disgusting, I bet they won't even have people getting the wrong BAH rate or other hallmarks of military pay. Also knowing Canada I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop and it turns into a tire fire.
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Don Gato posted:Disgusting, I bet they won't even have people getting the wrong BAH rate or other hallmarks of military pay.
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Oct 20, 2019 23:34
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Don Gato posted:Disgusting, I bet they won't even have people getting the wrong BAH rate or other hallmarks of military pay. 1) BAH isn't a thing so yes. 2) Point 1 is the only real good thing that can be said about the system. Some unlucky individuals have been getting hosed up pay for years. Others who were less desperate just quit the public service altogether I think the government announced they're going to scrap it earlier this year. Godholio posted:
Shield, outta curiosity??
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Nebakenezzer posted:In a poor decision, the Canadian federal pay system was revised to modern US military standards, except it was all written in modern languages by programmers over the past couple of years Is that the Phoenix debacle? I haven't been paying that close attention to it but jeezuz.
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Guest2553 posted:Shield, outta curiosity?? I do GCI for the Air Force. We support a bunch of squadrons, TDY units, different platforms. Keeps things interesting.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Yep. That’s the Navy. Nothing better than being on a Navy computer, visiting Navy websites, and being warned you’re going to get hacked by China and your CC sold to Putin if you keep going. It's all because DoD certificates aren't installed by default on modern operating systems. Thankfully, the DoD has released a tool to install the DoD root certificates. It's helpfully called "INSTALLROOT.EXE" and, were it not 100% signed and verified by the United States Army and behind an authenticated .mil server, I would be confident it's a trojan. I mean, it lets me access DoD websites which are transparently allowed to spy on all transactions, but that's not the same as COVERTLY spying.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Thankfully, the DoD has released a tool to install the DoD root certificates. It's helpfully called "INSTALLROOT.EXE" and, were it not 100% signed and verified by the United States Army and behind an authenticated .mil server, I would be confident it's a trojan. Signed and verified... according to the root certificates it just installed? 
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priznat posted:Is that the Phoenix debacle? I haven't been paying that close attention to it but jeezuz. When the inquiry ended an academic was quoted as saying there needed to be mass firings in the senor levels of the civil service as clearly the culture was just septic e: New Raider X video. (Um guys something else is called the Raider.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpQC_qpkRRE Is "digitally designed" the new "created on paper first?" Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 14:59
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Nebakenezzer posted:When the inquiry ended an academic was quoted as saying there needed to be mass firings in the senor levels of the civil service as clearly the culture was just septic Yep, digitally designed is just that... WE DON'T NEED PAPERS NO MORE. The Raider X does sound badass.
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counter rotating props and a pusher prop gently caress yeah gearbox/transmission must be a nightmare tho
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What could possibly go wrong with another nuclear power in the Middle East? https://twitter.com/HeidiNBC/status/1186257936210903040?s=20
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Someone better do an inventory of the B61s
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TK-42-1 posted:Someone better do an inventory of the B61s All
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Seems like a good opportunity to finally resolve the northern cyprus issue doesn't it
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The Greeks are gonna love that
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Captain von Trapp posted:Signed and verified... according to the root certificates it just installed? X.509 PKI is not necessarily the same as signed software, the root cert is probably the one that signs the .mil internal certs for poo poo like web and mail servers. If you have the weight behind you to do it, ban execution outright of any software not signed. It's an anazing tool for endpoint hardening. It's one of the reasons OSX is so secure - Apple will have checks out your rear end before you're allowed to publish in App Store.
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aphid_licker posted:The Greeks are gonna love that https://www.euractiv.com/section/po...3nBd6E6hyAxj6Ww Article posted:“We warned the Kurds that the Americans would abandon them. And here in Rhodes, I can personally warn the Greeks to think about whether a similar fate awaits them,” said Vladimir Chizhov, Russia’s Ambassador to the EU. SimonCat fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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TK-42-1 posted:Someone better do an inventory of the B61s No poo poo. He has already threatened to keep em.
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Didn't we already pull them out of incirlik? We should close incirclik pre-emptively, tbh. Move operations to Akrotiri and Al Udeid for the time being.
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EvilMerlin posted:No poo poo. He has already threatened to keep em. If he made that specific threat we should have removed them immediately. But then it would be a shame of what could have happened to a certain hotel.
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Mortabis posted:Didn't we already pull them out of incirlik? If my memory isn't faulty it was announced you were shipping them out after the coup, apparently that didn't happen.
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They are there as of last week.
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How does the NATO treaty deal with shooting wars between member states?
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Phanatic posted:How does the NATO treaty deal with shooting wars between member states? Based on Greece v. Turkey over Cyprus, just try to ignore it mostly.
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If you are worried America is a fair weather friend then I have super bad news for you about Russia's friendship
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Hauldren Collider posted:If you are worried America is a fair weather friend then I have super bad news for you about Russia's friendship They came through for Serbia in 1914 and that went well for everybody
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Oct 21, 2019 22:07
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It's like a New Best Friend meme every day... or hour.
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Alaan posted:They are there as of last week. Probably uncharted territory (at least I hope it is) but what would the US's possible/probable response or actions be should they decide they are actually going to keep the B-61 inventory?  Safeguards or not, I imagine a month with some lockpickers and some decent electronic engineers and they'd be ready to blow up at Erdoğan's command. I doubt  ECONOMIC SANCTIONS * are going to be able to pull it off if Russia decided to play ball (while they don't have deep pockets, I can't imagine they would pass up the chance to sow this kind of drama/dissent within NATO, even if it costs them a pretty penny).*the most powerful card in Trump's deck. **if this is too "politix" please disregard.
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Blistex posted:Safeguards or not, I imagine a month with some lockpickers and some decent electronic engineers and they'd be ready to blow up at Erdoğan's command. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3896814&pagenumber=73&perpage=40#post499165508 It's apparently a lot more complicated than that assuming the codes really were changed from 000000000 back in the 70s. Plus I'd bet good money the orders of the troops guarding the bomb is to hit that "permanently disable" switch of anyone tries to forcibly take them.
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The idea that PALs could prevent a determined state actor from remanufacturing 50 nukes worth of fissile material into functional weapons is laughable on its face, even if they had to go full dirty-bomb non-critical detonation in a blast chamber and pick through the debris it would still be a hell of a shortcut vs building an enrichment program from scratch.
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