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Our help desk manager recently left to "pursue a personal business opportunity." I found out today that it's cryptocurrencies.
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See him in a month!
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Dec 1, 2017 14:17
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ghostinmyshell posted:Does anyone have any Suddenlink business stories they want to share? I just started somewhere and dealing with these guys is kind of a joke. I thought CenturyLink was the worst but I guess not. Suddenlink was purchased by Altice which also purchased Cablevision, my former awesome consulting job. They completely gutted the company, run it incredibly lean and let customer service lack in favor of higher profit margins. Avoid
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Dec 1, 2017 14:22
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On the bank chat, most of the shitiness discussed earlier is related to the sale of mortgages to third parties. A lot of banks sell loans to Fannie mae or Freddie Mac, and they have to prove that they adhered to their underwriting standards.
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Dec 1, 2017 15:13
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:See him in a month! So many people in my office are spending large sums of money on this stuff right now and all I can do is shake my head. The crash happens every loving time and this one is just going to hit some people hard.
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Dec 1, 2017 15:23
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Sickening posted:So many people in my office are spending large sums of money on this stuff right now and all I can do is shake my head. The crash happens every loving time and this one is just going to hit some people hard. I think it was in the Bad With Money thread there was a screencap of some realtor's profanity-laced Twitter freakout when he did a huge margin call on Bitcoin right before it took a 20% hit. It's also the Bad With Money thread where a banker goon had a client who came in with a bunch of bitcoin he had gotten from selling a friend a $6,000 car in the early 2010s and was wondering what to do with it. Last we heard the client had been transferred to a higher level banker because he was making $10,000 every couple of days (transfer limit from the exchange) with no end in sight. A Bitcoin feel-good story.
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Dec 1, 2017 15:35
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Days after the macos root bug I've taken on a macbook pro and need to reset the admin password somehow with next to no experience supporting macs. This means googling "blank macos admin password" turns up a bunch of news items on the root bug rather than how-tos on how to reset admin locally. 
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Dec 1, 2017 17:41
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mewse posted:Days after the macos root bug I've taken on a macbook pro and need to reset the admin password somehow with next to no experience supporting macs. Generally you do this by booting into single-user mode (hold command+s during boot up) and resetting it from there.
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Dec 1, 2017 17:48
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Sepist posted:They completely gutted the company, run it incredibly lean and let customer service lack in favor of higher profit margins. Avoid every_telco_acquisition_ever.txt
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Dec 1, 2017 17:51
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Generally you do this by booting into single-user mode (hold command+s during boot up) and resetting it from there. Found some instructions, thanks!
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Dec 1, 2017 18:01
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mewse posted:Found some instructions, thanks!  I checked my, roughly, 3 cents in bitcoins. Still worth about 3 cents. Living the dream, friends.
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Dec 1, 2017 18:44
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Sickening posted:So many people in my office are spending large sums of money on this stuff right now and all I can do is shake my head. The crash happens every loving time and this one is just going to hit some people hard. What the hell man has someone been passing around the cool aid lately? Like three guys here have gotten in to it to the point where one of them bought a hardware wallet, and another 'dun goofed because he tried to do a conversion between Bitcoin and Ethereum for extra monies but did it the wrong way around.
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Dec 1, 2017 20:56
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Super Slash posted:What the hell man has someone been passing around the cool aid lately? The koolaid: 
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Dec 1, 2017 21:00
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gently caress cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular. This has been a CLAM DOWN post.
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Dec 1, 2017 21:07
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I've spent two days moving numbers on a screen because BitCoin has been so volatile this week, ±1,800 each day 
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Dec 1, 2017 21:16
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CLAM DOWN posted:gently caress cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular. QTIYD. Cryptocurrencies are bad for the environment with how much power they use and they’re bad for my wallet because they make graphics cards cost twice as much.
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Dec 1, 2017 21:37
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For a while AWS actually pegged the cost of their compute instances according to the value of a bitcoin because they didn't want to become a farm for that. Or so I hear, It would have been a long time ago when it was feasible to mine bitcoins without 50k worth of asic hardware
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Dec 1, 2017 22:16
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Current Friday status: all project work on schedule, all meetings for next week scheduled, all Change controls in, all incidents resolved, and the team knows I won’t be reachable for the next 24 hours. 
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Dec 1, 2017 22:20
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Methanar posted:For a while AWS actually pegged the cost of their compute instances according to the value of a bitcoin because they didn't want to become a farm for that. More that miners bid up spot price to break even with btc; arbitrage, basically. It tracked the listed prices on exchanges at the time.
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Dec 1, 2017 22:51
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Well some bright news. I had HR pull my contract and thankfully my bonus guarantee did not have a billable % clause so they're going to honor it. Still leaving once the house closes though.
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Dec 2, 2017 03:50
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I'm close to finishing my bachelor's in IT from an accredited college with a concentration in security. I wanna do pen test/security auditing stuff for a living. Should I go on to graduate school, find a job, try to get sec certs, none of these, some of these, or all of these.
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Dec 2, 2017 04:17
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KildarX posted:I'm close to finishing my bachelor's in IT from an accredited college with a concentration in security. I wanna do pen test/security auditing stuff for a living. Should I go on to graduate school, find a job, try to get sec certs, none of these, some of these, or all of these. All. At the same time.
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Dec 2, 2017 04:21
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Avenging_Mikon posted:All. At the same time. This is the right answer
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Avenging_Mikon posted:All. At the same time. Ah well fook. Is it hard to grab an entry level position doing security stuff?
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Dec 2, 2017 04:32
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In my experience, security positions are not entry level.
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Dec 2, 2017 05:06
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The Fool posted:In my experience, security positions are not entry level. Eh, you might get into a "Watch the blinky lights and alarm queue and then open tickets" position in a SOC
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Dec 2, 2017 05:14
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What does a master’s do for you in this field? I’d say skip grad school.
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Dec 2, 2017 05:28
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Internet Explorer posted:This is an email from Microsoft that one of my users got for their personal Outlook.com account. What the gently caress? Did you call their support and demand an explanation?
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Dec 2, 2017 05:31
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H110Hawk posted:What the gently caress? Did you call their support and demand an explanation? It was a personal account. This didn't happen to O365 orgs.
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Dec 2, 2017 05:32
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22 Eargesplitten posted:What does a master’s do for you in this field? I’d say skip grad school. You don't have to skip it, but look for a job concurrently if you're set on a Masters. I can say we filled a mid-level security position with an applicant that had a lot of practical work experience over several candidates with M.S. degrees but very little to no work experience. The one who got the job had some good high-level certs, but those didn't factor as much as the experience did.
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KildarX posted:I wanna do pen test/security auditing stuff for a living. Should I go on to graduate school, find a job, try to get sec certs, none of these, some of these, or all of these. You sure you want to do this? It's not as sexy or glamorous as most people think it is. What sort of IT background do you have? Some of the top infosec folks have little to no college education. If you're looking for a corporate gig the education can come in handy during the hiring process. Infosec is generally dull and boring. The guys at my company read reports generated by automated tools, write reports, policy, and powerpoints, fight to try to make folks compliant with an alphabet soup of security frameworks. I wouldn't trade places with them for double the salary.
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skipdogg posted:Infosec is generally dull and boring. The guys at my company read reports generated by automated tools, write reports, policy, and powerpoints, fight to try to make folks compliant with an alphabet soup of security frameworks. I wouldn't trade places with them for double the salary. Entry level, which is pretty much what you're describing, is dull and boring. That's true across a lot of IT. Working with a company that fights tooth and nail against every initiative is frustrating, but that's less being "security" and more being in a poo poo company. You know how you get them to stop fighting you if you're stuck in a compliance role? You make god damned sure all your findings and recommendations are recorded. Email works well for that. Then you watch them suffer failure. After paying fines or having a merchant account suspended, they tend to be more receptive. If you stick it out and learn things, it can be wildly interesting and fun. My job is basically figuring out how to break things and then figure out how to stop it from happening. Or at least provide data generated and methodology used to the people who can stop it. And I enjoy doing it. EDIT: Oh, he mentioned pen-testing. OK, that's dull and boring I agree. Most companies use pre-packaged suites and little analysis. There are some good and interesting firms, but they're ridiculously hard to get a job at. In my case I break the stuff we make, or the solutions we design for customers, or the architecture used to support the customers. That's fun for me because it's always something new. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Dec 2, 2017 |
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Most infosec roles are not nearly as glamourous as you may think. It's endless documents, policies, audits, meetings, calls, spreadsheets, even the pentesting side. If you want to get into infosec, make sure you genuinely find a passion for it and you're ready to start at a very basic level. Get ready for a lot of training, practice, and self teaching.
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Dec 2, 2017 06:53
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22 Eargesplitten posted:What does a master’s do for you in this field? about $30,000/yr 22 Eargesplitten posted:I’d say skip grad school. i'd say skip this poster's opinions
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Dec 2, 2017 06:58
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He says, in this thread full of people who are making six figures with at most a bachelors (and a lot who don’t even have that). So how about something other than a big sounding number thrown out with nothing to back it up? The only job postings I have seen asking for a MS are either the kind with ridiculously high qualifications or more R&D type stuff. In school, I asked the professors if there was a benefit to getting a masters, and they said only if you wanted to be a teacher or go into the science side of things rather than the practical applications. Were you saying that a master's gets you a $30,000 position as an adjunct? Wow, you have two posts in this thread. Both of which are attempts at sick burns. 22 Eargesplitten fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Dec 2, 2017 |
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Dec 2, 2017 07:24
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22 Eargesplitten posted:He says, in this thread full of people who are making six figures with at most a bachelors (and a lot who don’t even have that). So how about something other than a big sounding number thrown out with nothing to back it up? I make 200k and I got a ged. I also live in Texas as a remote worker. Ama I’m also holding a EU passport so I can bolt when trump really fucks this place up.
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Dec 2, 2017 07:33
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jaegerx posted:I make 200k and I got a ged. I also live in Texas as a remote worker. Ama what exactly do you work on day to day?
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Dec 2, 2017 07:39
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Tab8715 posted:what exactly do you work on day to day? He jerks off to furry porn
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Dec 2, 2017 07:40
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Tab8715 posted:what exactly do you work on day to day? I implement large scale infrastructure. From openstack to openshift. I’m mostly redhat now. Previously I’d deploy anything they paid me for. Wanna run 500 servers+ in a cluster way I’m your guy.
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CLAM DOWN posted:He jerks off to furry porn That’s only at lunch break
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