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when in doubt, find a picture of a hot chick (with guns = bonus), make a poster = positive reaction, and positive rep points. Your way = negative and full of fail

I'm starting to think Obama and Gates don't even want a military. Why not just retire everything and simply "talk" our way out of all future conflicts? [/sarcasm]

Didn't mean to thread hijack, but I recall a certain document allowing for federal common defense and promoting general welfare... This just seems like robbing one to pay for an obscured view of the other.

Pissing contest removed. If you want to talk about AIBs, SIBs and other issues of such, start a new thread or take it out of respect for the crew

I call BS on that 75 MB limit being ok. If google can provide e-mail to a larger audience than the AF (probably somewhere around 10 times the audience) with mailbox sizes that exceed 5 GB, then the AF ought to be able to provide something similar. I change workstations often (part of the job, I use one main one and I have finally created an offline PST for it) and would like to access my e-mail from any one of those workstations. As far as loading 75 MBs of e-mails everytime... I don't know why it does that. Just load the headers! That 75 MB becomes less that 1 MB, even when you're looking at 1000 emails. You got right to the heart of my point. My mother in has a FTTH (Fiber to the home) (Fios) from verizon. If she can get a fiber connection into her house in 2008, the air force should AT LEAST have fiber interconnects between buildings in 2010. Now you're right, I don't know much about AF network topology, but they should also have a separate internet backbone, similar to Internet2 used by universities. Lots of my griping I think would be solved by such a solution. It's not that I cannot do it. I do it. I enjoy doing it. But here's where its frustrating, COMM is so thin they don't have the folks to help us. So I go and install my buddy's machine and there's something wrong with it. Despite my ability to troubleshoot what it is, it will still take at least 24 hrs for someone to fix it. In this day and age of COMM stretched thin (and the AF trying to stretch it even thinner with force shaping), we should have something like CSAs. My whole point is that its tough to tell your buddy, "Hey I know I'm the one who installed this machine, but I'm not the one who can support it." If someone brings you something, they should probably be able to fix it... I agree on the potential impact of losing secret information. However, by making sure our networks are state of the art, we will also be making sure our networks are secure. Also, "cyber offense" (I hate that term cyber, replace it with Network Security or something) shouldn't be our job. (this I suppose gets into a bigger argument, way way way above my paygrade). Cyber should be the domain of folks like the NSA or another organization DESIGNED to do it. Again, I could care less about the wings. It's not that. I just don't think COMM is doing a very good job. Is 1Lt or SSgt so and so doing a good job (comm bubbas), sure they are. But COMM / Computer Procurement as an organization has some learning to do, especially from providers like Google and Yahoo who service more folks than the AF does and they do it faster than anyone. The AF can certainly learn from Google and Yahoo in that regard.

Well put.