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ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

JSARSOM posted:

What the gently caress would the director even look at? I can't imagine it's like the 'hacking' in movies with 3d virtual buildings and poo poo.

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Grey Fox V2
Nov 14, 2008

Augmented Balls of Titanium!

Baloogan posted:

Commander Spack; set phasers to civil liberties.
Oh it gets better:

quote:

At one point, a former official recalls (NSA director Keith) Alexander giving a briefing on how closely terrorists were connected via communications networks. "Later, we had a chance to review the information," he says. "It turns out that all [that] those guys were connected to were pizza shops." In other cases, he apparently deployed tools so aggressively that it became hard to keep them secret. A search system called the "automatic ingestion manager" crawled and catalogued websites heavily enough that the Defense Intelligence Agency site automatically kicked it out as a potential cyberattack.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/15/4732930/nsa-information-dominance-center-redesigned-as-starship-enterprise

Caconym
Feb 12, 2013


The "automatic ingestion manager"?
Do they have an "automatic digestion manager" to do the analysis after the data has been "ingested"?

hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

Caconym posted:

The "automatic ingestion manager"?
Do they have an "automatic digestion manager" to do the analysis after the data has been "ingested"?

Probably. It only produces complete poo poo, though.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

JSARSOM posted:

What the gently caress would the director even look at? I can't imagine it's like the 'hacking' in movies with 3d virtual buildings and poo poo.

In most similar rooms (that's a bit more overboard and centralist than I've seen in the handful I've visited), it's a map of the relevant AOR. For the NSA, it's probably some weirdo's deviantart/lj page.

Edit:

Godholio fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Sep 16, 2013

N17R4M
Aug 18, 2012

Because yes we actually DID want that land

Godholio posted:

In most similar rooms (that's a bit more overboard and centralist than I've seen in the handful I've visited), it's a map of the relevant AOR. For the NSA, it's probably some weirdo's deviantart/lj page.

Edit:


No, no, no. The money goes in from the top, comes out the bottom as fire.

Slashrat
Jun 6, 2011

YOSPOS
I'm guessing that is a picture of how the people involved in building the thing views it.

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer
And here I was thinking they didn't even aim the drat things.

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


I hope he's not using Apple Maps :ohdear:

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Slim Pickens posted:

And here I was thinking they didn't even aim the drat things.



I wish Steve Jobs wasn't dead, because then I could send him this photo and wonder what he'd say about it.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I wish Steve Jobs wasn't dead, because then I could send him this photo and wonder what he'd say about it.

Probably gush about the emergent and empowering uses of tech, while giving his lawyers the secret hand signal to secure a vague patent on it

grover
Jan 23, 2002

PEW PEW PEW
:circlefap::circlefap::circlefap:
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shyduck posted:

I hope he's not using Apple Maps :ohdear:
There should be an app for that :colbert:

Betcha that ipad doesn't even show angle, it just moves the target pip on the map as he adjusts the mortar.

grover fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Sep 17, 2013

Hydrolith
Oct 30, 2009

grover posted:

There should be an app for that :colbert:

Betcha that ipad doesn't even show angle, it just moves the target pip on the map as he adjusts the mortar.

Huh. Surely that wouldn't be too hard to write, either.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

I'm like 90% sure there's an app for setting up those firing lane charts for defensive positions.

grover
Jan 23, 2002

PEW PEW PEW
:circlefap::circlefap::circlefap:
:circlefap::circlefap::circlefap:
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Hydrolith posted:

Huh. Surely that wouldn't be too hard to write, either.
I don't think the tilt sensors or compass would be accurate enough to get closer than a city block to your intended target in practice. You'd need external dedicated sensors, but even that would be pretty easy. Better still: hook it up to servos and have it slew automatically.

Actually, wasn't that pretty much the FCS mortar system? Gunner sits in the truck and clicks on a map, mortar traverses and fires a salvo?

Victor Vermis
Dec 21, 2004


WOKE UP IN THE DESERT AGAIN
I can't imagine it's that hard to get a hold of firing tables and a compass. I mean poo poo, you already got the mortar. And it's not like you need a linguist to translate numbers.

Sure, the finer points of mortar gunnery might take some time to pick-up, but these look like bright fellas.

25 rounds in effect, ALLAHUACKBAR.

edit: Okay, I guess you'd need a sight, too. ... nevermind, keep on keepin' on, bros.

Beria
Nov 13, 2011
What really strikes me is what a good time they look like they're having in a lot of videos

Those are happy "ALLAHUACKBAR"s

Victor Vermis
Dec 21, 2004


WOKE UP IN THE DESERT AGAIN
Shooting mortars is fun. I'll be honest, I sometimes daydream about being whisked away to the birthplace of civilization in a Jesse Pinkman teaches-the-cartel-how-to-cook kind of adventure. Oh, the memories we would make.

NIGGER DEATH TURBO
Jul 4, 2013

by Lowtax

Hydrolith posted:

Huh. Surely that wouldn't be too hard to write, either.

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!

Victor Vermis posted:

Shooting mortars is fun. I'll be honest, I sometimes daydream about being whisked away to the birthplace of civilization in a Jesse Pinkman teaches-the-cartel-how-to-cook kind of adventure. Oh, the memories we would make.

This sounds ripe for a short story.

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I wish Steve Jobs wasn't dead, because then I could send him this photo and wonder what he'd say about it.

Steve Jobs was a Lebanese Syrian. His father was born in Homs.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
I hate apple but Steve Jobs was an American.

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.
Quit helldumping stebe.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



Ron Jeremy posted:

Steve Jobs was a Lebanese Syrian. His father was born in Homs.

His father that he never met. Steve was put up for adoption and never had a relationship with his biological parents. His father, a casino owner and millionaire himself, said he would have loved to meet his son, but refused to reach out to him because he didn't want anyone to think he was doing it for the money.

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

Mr. Nice! posted:

said he would have loved to meet his son, but refused to reach out to him because he didn't want anyone to think he was doing it for the money.
Jesus what a fuckup.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

grover posted:

There should be an app for that :colbert:

The all-new Apple William Tell.

Oxford Comma
Jun 26, 2011
Oxford Comma: Hey guys I want a cool big dog to show off! I want it to be ~special~ like Thor but more couch potato-like because I got babbies in the house!
Everybody: GET A LAB.
Oxford Comma: OK! (gets a a pit/catahoula mix)

evil_bunnY posted:

Jesus what a fuckup.

Not really.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



evil_bunnY posted:

Jesus what a fuckup.

Not really. Jobs was a prick and probably wouldn't have anything to do with him if he did.

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


Crosspostin from AF thread

af times posted:

Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Mark Welsh appears on stage wearing a Captain America mask to remind airmen that "A" stands for airpower during the Air Force Association's Air and Space Conference Sept. 17.

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed


Grimey Drawer
Captain America was in the Army, chair force faggots :colbert:

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
The Air Force was in the Army.

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed


Grimey Drawer

Baloogan posted:

The Air Force was in the Army.

And it should have stayed that way :smug:

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


Yeah but that means I'd have to be in the Army, let's not go nuts

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

shyduck posted:

Yeah but that means I'd have to be in the Army, let's not go nuts

Go nuts?

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

'Rah devildogs

Dilettante.
Feb 18, 2011
:britain: :canada:




:911:



:godwinning:



:3:

Madurai
Jun 26, 2012


The Hornet gives me some very grown-up feelings in my pants.

Dilkington
Aug 6, 2010

"Al mio amore Dilkington, Gennaro"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWCX6IeBH7U


e: Sorry about that. The video is a doc about Red Cell, a team created by the Navy to troubleshoot base security in the 80's. It was made up of SEALs led by Marcinko- basically they infiltrated a bunch of places, beat up guards, kidnapped and worked over officers and planted low-yield explosives. They were shut down because they were getting too rough, and they probably also used their autonomy to steal military assets.


vvvvvv

Dilkington fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Sep 20, 2013

Oxford Comma
Jun 26, 2011
Oxford Comma: Hey guys I want a cool big dog to show off! I want it to be ~special~ like Thor but more couch potato-like because I got babbies in the house!
Everybody: GET A LAB.
Oxford Comma: OK! (gets a a pit/catahoula mix)

I don't wanna be That Guy but can we get a description along with a YouTube URL?! What makes this link so special that I should click on it.

:spergin:

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Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
Looks like it's hosted by Richard Marcinko.

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