Sam1

If the lotto keeps getting this big, maybe we could set up a scalping scheme.  Go in early in the morning and buy a bunch of tickets cause people in the ghetto ain't getting up, and drive out there that afternoon and resell them with a convenience charge so people don't have to wait in line.

Don't get hung up on a CISSP being fresh off the boat, you have to show you have years of experience in a specific field:   https://www.isc2.org/cissp-professional-experience.aspx   The school will sell you all the training you will pay for, do your own research to make sure you are eligible and can legitimately perform the tasks associated with the role after.  Basic certs are no issue, but when you get higher up into the security field, it's a whole new ball game.  It only takes one whoopsie to ruin your career.

eh, not too worried about it firing, the headache for getting something like that set up would be unimaginable.  With that much money we could go to a military base and talk to the commander and make a donation or two and be allowed to sneak in on some range days with active duty units....   And we wouldn't have to clean sh*t afterwards!

  That sounds more legit

damn now I want to win the lottery so I can buy a tank.  didn't really care for it much until right now.

I would have a single nice sports car, that is my only 100% for sure happening splurge.  Nothing crazy like a Bugatti or anything, but just something I could pull out to drive occasionally.    Oh no I lied.   I would buy a tank, a demilled M1A1 full-functional (except the cannon) just because I miss them so much.  I would definitely buy a tank, if for no other reason than to just start up on occasion and burn up a few hundred gallons of jet fuel around the farm just to piss off the tree huggers.

  We talked about that in previously before this lotto thing went up so high.  This is no BS the first thing I would do is disappear, I mean legitimately be gone like a plane flying through the Bermuda triangle.  Most of my true friends are from the military and we only see each other every few years, no one will miss me.  During that disappearance, I would probably get in touch with Dave Ramsey's people and plea for help while I stockpile a battalion of lawyers, then go back home and kidnap my immediate family and force them to move to an undisclosed location before coming forward to claim the prize.   We're talking about some stuff on the level like from the movie "Taken" happening where the only person that would be able to find or contact us would be Liam Neeson.  

  If I had a ticket and I won, you could roll around in a pile of my annuities any time you wanted! ..... just call me Caitlyn and come on over   :rofl:

If no one wins tonight, there is no doubt in my mind it will be at $2bil on Saturday.  I stopped by to get some gas and figured what the hell let me go get a ticket... That was a no-go.  They had at least 10 people in line trying to buy all they could afford.  Waited for maybe 2-3 minutes and they were still printing out tickets for the first person and I had to head out.   Stuff is crazy.

  Germany is supposed to be getting extremely bad too, there's a bunch of vids popping up with them marching through the cities saying they are going to take over, like marches of people in the hundreds and thousands, not just a couple dozen radicals.

  You can draw out what you want, but you will still be sued and some of those will be from your best "friends" and "family".  People have such a sense of entitlement that they believe they deserve part of your winnings too, after all... what did you do to earn that money?   Check out that TV show the lottery destroyed my life or whatever it is called, the tips they all have is tell everyone no (I'm at expert level on that one), move away, don't invest in things you don't understand.  Almost every single one of them say your friends and family are what cause the biggest issues.

  In that case, I would expect that all 73,000 firearms counted for the poll belong to people on this site.  Not including the other 30,000,000 in the state.

http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/most-heavily-armed-states-in-america/26/?ftag=ACQ812ebde   Think their count is just a bit off.  States:     I'd say there's what 2500 members here?  We probably have 1/3 of that count alone lol

  CNN posted an article about an australian group that tried it with the Virginia lottery in 1992. I think it said there were 7mil possible combinations with a $27mil jackpot.  They miscalculated the amount of time it would take to print out all of the tickets so they get $2.2mil worth of them bought, ran out of time and didn't win lol.

I'm sure it's done by transfer behind the scenes.   Floyd Mayweather keeps all of his money in a single bank account, so it's feasible.

  Looked like a semi, he had plenty of ammo.  Outside of that, one bang would have went off and those "bad ass thugs" would've scattered before the second round was fired.   *wanted to add, this is also why a personal requirement for my EDC is that it holds a minimum of 10 rounds.

Video is about 2 months old, but seen it pop up in a Ben Shapiro article this morning.  This guy shows amazing restraint, and you can bet from this video as hesitant as he was to unholster, if it would've came out, it would have been used.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHX5jsomq_U

  Sure hyper-v is free, but there's more to an virtual infrastructure than a server OS.  I do 'conveniently ignore' that fact because it is a minuscule artifact in VI.   I ran a very small 100 VM setup through there and it shows a $320,000 savings over a 2 year period between the two.  100 VMs is nothing.   http://www.vmware.com/go/tcocalculator/newIndex.html?numvirtualMacin=100&productEdition=vSphere+with+Operations+Management+Standard&nummacinDeploy=100&isliveMigration=1&healthMonitoring=1&isloadBalancing=1&isStorageloadbalancing=1&virtualizationHost=Server+C+%28HP+DL560+Gen8%2C+4+CPU%2C+256GB+RAM%29&networkedStorage=vSAN&networkedStorageComparison=FC+SAN&virtualizationManagement=Virtual+Machines&costofElectricity=Average&costofRealestate=Average&BaselinevmPerCpu=6&additionalvmPercpu=1&index_submit=See+Results   But it's free!  :bowrofl:

yeah vmware is the top dog, hyper-v is good, but TCO over vmware solutions is much higher... That's why people are sticking with vmware.  I think vmware has a calculator on their website explaining the differences, used it during the summer for a class, it was surprising how much more expensive hyper-v was.

  Those technical positions normally involve a secondary area of expertise such as networking, platforms, dbadmin etc.  They're not for someone with just a straight IS/IA background.

for the numbers people just out of curiosity...   If someone did win and donated 50% of their winnings to IRS recognized charities, what would be the end result?  Say they won $100mil, donated $40mil.  The tax rate was 40%. IRS gets close to nothing and the charities win.   It's probably not that simple, I have liberal math stuck on the brain tonight and can't figure it out.

If I won, the first thing I would do is disappear.  The second thing would be to give half of it away to medical charities for kids or something else of my choosing.  Third would be to blow 5% on completely useless stuff just to get it out of my system and fourth would be to finish school and spend the rest of my days telling all family and "friends" to screw off.

status update?

To get into the PKI/encryption/certificates side of things in the private sector, you're going to need some serious schooling or experience to back that up.  That's a pretty specific field to get into.  High risk type of job, the ones that have specific positions that work with that are usually very careful on who they put in those positions. IS/IA jobs are more policy/procedure kind of things like what an ISO does or a consulting firm would do.   As someone else said earlier, virtualization is the way to go for a lot of sysadmin fields, whether it be networking or servers.   On the fafsa/gi bill thing, these are two different things altogether. fafsa is a system that registers you for financial aid, it is not money/payment.  What it does get you is a loan, so technically you could get a student loan to pay for school, then get your GI bill payout as well and blow that money.  That's what I did for undergrad and had a great time.... But now I owe $100g's in student loans, and it would have been nice to owe $30k less but of course I wasn't thinking about that 10 years ago.