@nadnerB said in Skyrim Special Edition Is Out:

@scottalanmiller said in Skyrim Special Edition Is Out:

@thwr said in Skyrim Special Edition Is Out:

Update or pay-again?

Update. Owners of the full original game on Steam prior to the 26th found the new addition added to their libraries on Wednesday morning. No action or cost involved.

IF and only if you bought the game and ALL the DLC.
Otherwise, pay again.

That's what would make it an update.... if you don't already own what is being updated, it would be a give away 😉 Update implies that you own the original.

@NetworkNerd said in New book arrived:

@scottalanmiller said in New book arrived:

I love IT books, but the right topic is important.

I really enjoyed the Mastering vSphere series. I have not read the one on version 6, but the ones on 5 and 5.5 were rather enjoyable.

Because 50% of the book was about how to handle that SSO mess? 😉 SCNR

Ha-Ha-lairious! Where do you do put the straw? Great stuff seriously.

@s.hackleman said in Mocking the Apple live event:

Maybe I'm OCD, but I don't want anyones nasty fingers on my monitor.. especially my own.

Disinfects and removes grime - even the crustiest user filth.

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@ChrisL said in What's your Halloween costume?:

@art_of_shred said in What's your Halloween costume?:

@ChrisL I can't quite tell which one of you is more thrilled to be there/have your picture taken...

Hahah, I was trying to be the lion-version of her creepy dead twin.

Oh, so it's not because you realized you were the only one in a "furry" costume at the party? That's good.

@Minion-Queen said in FollowSAM SpiceWorld Austin 2016:

I can't wait that was so much fun last year!

This will be my third year on the boat.

@nadnerB said in New cameras from Netgear-Arlo:

@Dashrender said in New cameras from Netgear-Arlo:

@Jason said in New cameras from Netgear-Arlo:

@Dashrender said in New cameras from Netgear-Arlo:

@Jason said in New cameras from Netgear-Arlo:

@JaredBusch said in New cameras from Netgear-Arlo:

The next IoT device to add to the botnet

Yup. Get a DVR and use a VPN or SSL not something that uses their online service...

I don't have a problem with using someone's online service as long as my device doesn't need to be published through my own router. Sure if the vendor gets hacked, the hackers could use that connection to try to get back into my network, but I'm a soft target compared to the vendor's network.

Not really.. Not when there's millions of those devices to uses in a DDoS. You all become part of the plan.

I get what you're saying, but normals want remote access their DVRs and setting up access through a cloud provider that then has a secure connection to the DVR is way better than normals trying to setup and maintain VPNs, etc.

Or people could be content to miss whatever it is. 😉 I'm sure people will live and civilisation continue if DVR's and other toys aren't accessible outside home LANs 🙂

While it's true that people would learn to cope, but the cat's already out of the bag. Unless ISPs start blocking outbound traffic, you can't stop someone from doing this. Plus there are already probably millions of those things out there, it's not like people are just going to give them up tomorrow if they saw the news and realized they were partly to blame for these types of problems.

I do wish that ISPs were the tiniest bit more altruistic and would take a list from the forensic analysis of large attacks like this and at minimum send emails to their customers who's IP was on the list of those participating in the attacks.
AND while it's much less effective now considering the number of IoT devices available to attack with real IPs, I wish ISPs would drop outgoing packets that have forged return addresses.

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@scottalanmiller said in I've lost all hope in Education.:

@coliver said in I've lost all hope in Education.:

@scottalanmiller said in I've lost all hope in Education.:

@Dashrender said in I've lost all hope in Education.:

@dafyre said in I've lost all hope in Education.:

@scottalanmiller said in I've lost all hope in Education.:

@Dashrender said in I've lost all hope in Education.:

@scottalanmiller said in I've lost all hope in Education.:

@dafyre said in I've lost all hope in Education.:

@scottalanmiller said in I've lost all hope in Education.:

@dafyre said in I've lost all hope in Education.:

As someone who is considering going back to college just to complete my AA (to start), I've also been down the road on this... Some folks are telling me that since it has been so long since I did my core classes (english, psych, science, etc) that I may have to take them again.

My response to that is: Nope. I took them already, and I simply refuse to take them again, even if that means I won't get the degree.

Why bother with the non-degree, then? Since college is anti-education, what's the upside without the sheepskin?

Well, in my case, it'd equate to a 5k to 10k/year pay raise at my current job. If I take it using the financial aid available to staff, then I'm only out my time and books... It makes it insanely cheap for me to get the last few classes I need... So I see it as a win. That's the only reason I'd go back for it is a pay raise.

How does it become a raise? Just taking classes gives you a raise? Any classes? ANy number of them?

Sadly I've seen companies like this. No degree today, but you get one tomorrow and you get a raise for no other reason than you now have a degree... really lame!

No, THAT I would understand. He had said that he was going to refuse to take the classes necessary to get the degree granted, so was just going to take the pointless tech classes. That's why I was confused. While I don't agree with raises for degrees, I understand that it happens. That it was not going on here is what confused me.

No, I said that I would not start from scratch. I've already paid for and taken my core classes (the english, literature, science, math, etc...). I said I wouldn't go back and pay (again) to take those. The reason I say that is I have family members that seem to think that because I took the classes so long ago (17 years ago, lol), I won't get to keep those credits.

I'm in the process of getting all my info together so I can find out.

Colleges do have a time limit on the valid time of credits if there is a break between when you took them and when you try to finish. For example, if you haven't taken a class with them in 15 years, they might have expired all of your credits.

Normally it is a fraction of that. RIT is seven years. SUNY is like five.

RIT grad school is also 5... from experience.

Nope, it's seven. I'm there now dealing with it.

I was dealing with it last year unfortunately. Just missed the deadline.

IBM are getting grilled in the parliament this week and based on what I heard, they were actually blaming the subcontractors for the failure, especially the ISP who failed to provide geo IP blocking

@Murtlap dude, that phone is "the bomb" takes on a new meaning.

@Murtlap said in Tesla Announces Self Driving Cars:

I wish had suh car. It will be more comfy to get home when I am drunk

That's my key selling point.

Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou Xiongmai is set to recall swathes of webcams after they were compromised by the Mirai botnet.
 
Mirai exploits the low security standards of internet-connected devices, from routers to webcams, and after enslaving them with malware uses their network connections to launch DDoS attacks, such as that hobbling Dyn's DNS services last week.

Sauce of regret: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/24/chinese_firm_recalls_webcams_over_mirai_botnet_infection_ddos_woes/

What about a little electric job like the Nissan Leaf?

Doesn't appear to be any university sponsoring the event, but it looks like continuing development credits might be available for it, would be interesting to see which universities give credit via that accreditation. Maybe none.

@WLS-ITGuy said in Coding PC/Kit?:

@mlnews That's it. Ordered.

Thanks!

Awesome, hopefully you can do a review, too. Would be great to hear some feedback on it.

And I got one! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01863IYSC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1