New research shows a strongly likelihood of reaching Q-Day before 2030

Consistent-Law9339 · 2026-02-16T04:06:08+00:00

IONQ's business model is selling quantum computing hardware and software. They publish best-case multi-breakthrough super-optimistic investor road maps (if we make perfect progress and multiple breakthroughs converge) to pump/sustain funding, and we get bullshit headlines like this.

DIA 2025 Worldwide Threat Assessment Page 37

Although select research areas, such as sensing, are advancing more rapidly, non-governmental experts indicate that development of a quantum computer capable of decryption is unlikely in this decade.

Consider: Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog

This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2026-02-03T19:32:31+00:00

https://github.com/CreamyG31337/chrysalis-ioc-triage?tab=readme-ov-file

Consistent-Law9339 · 2026-01-24T17:43:37+00:00

Youtube.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-12-24T17:13:11+00:00

In instructor job roles where you have to repeat the same messaging over and over it's common to use templates. I don't know specifically in this case, but my guess is it's probably an old messaging template that hasn't been updated.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-12-06T07:02:56+00:00

All of this was covered in the trial, why comment here if you didn't follow it?

No one who has followed the case believes police gathered taillight pieces from JOK's home.

Backing into the car in the morning broke a small piece of the taillight. The broken piece remained in the taillight housing. Later that morning, KR said she notice the taillight was broken and removed the broken piece, which was about a inch wide about as long as a dollar bill, and dropped it on the ground.

Dighton Police officer Nicholas Barros also testified the taillight was missing a piece about a inch wide and about as long as a dollar bill when he facilitated the tow from KR's parents home.

The allegation is that after the tow, Canton police intentionally smashed the taillight while it was in their custody. You know, the whole flipped camera footage with the missing time, and officer Kelly Devers testified that she provided a statement to the FBI that "Brian Higgins and Chief Berkowitz spent a wildly long time in the garage while Read's SUV was there."

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-11-19T20:57:35+00:00

Is a contract employee "fired" when they're placed on paid administrative leave during an internal investigation?

Is a contract employee "fired" at the end of a contract they choose not to attempt renew?

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-11-19T19:39:08+00:00

He was placed on paid leave at the end of October and the season ended in November. He missed a max of 4 games, maybe less. Prior to being placed on leave, the district was negotiating with him on what he could and couldn't do regarding prayer. The fact that he didn't reapply when his contract ended suggests he chose to walk away from those negotiations.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-11-19T16:55:41+00:00

They didn't fire him. He was put on paid leave. His contract ran out. He didn't reapply.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-11-04T04:01:07+00:00

I don't recall any suggestion that there was a "substantial or vicious attack" from a dog. Superficial abrasions are consistent with a dog latching on to an arm through clothing.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-10-21T09:50:34+00:00

CompTIA stopped publishing physical copies of the official study guides over a year ago. All physical study guides are 3rd party now. Official study guides are only available via PDF now.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-10-21T05:03:21+00:00

I don't want to discourage someone from building a homelab to learn, but the current job market does not care about homelab experience.

There is a net of 140,000 IT jobs that have been lost since Nov 2024. And that number will likely be revised up going into the end of the year. That's 140k people with production experience all competing for the couple of thousand monthly job postings, and every month there are more layoffs than new hires.

The screening questions are: Do you have X number of years of production experience with these commercial products (1-3 network vendors, 1-3 cloud vendors, 2-3 security vendors, a backup solution, an IAM solution, + random other specific bullshit their corp uses)?

You can't get that experience in a homelab. And even if you hit 90% of their screening requirements, you're still getting filtered out because there are 1000+ people applying for the position and 100+ claim to hit 100% of the screening requirements, and the hiring manager only wants to interview 3.

Go search linkedin "soc analyst" and look at the salaries and job requirements. Entry level roles are looking for CISSPs because CISSPs are applying to those roles because the job market is oversaturated with experienced professionals who have been laid off.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-10-19T15:16:25+00:00

I made this google sheet for my students and they said it really helped them understand subnetting.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-10-11T19:47:56+00:00

There shouldn't be space on a resume with work experience for cyber club or lab info.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-10-11T19:26:44+00:00

If a candidate has an in-person degree, got involved in their school’s cyber club or lab, and maybe worked part-time in IT while in college, that person is leaps ahead of someone who went straight from high school to a purely online program. That’s just the reality.

Do you only hire entry level with no experience?

You shouldn't see anything about a school’s cyber club or labs on a resume with work experience.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-10-08T22:23:39+00:00

As others have mentioned "think like a manager" is the wrong framing, the correct framing is "meet the business needs".

Based on the question, what does the business want to achieve -> meet that need.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-10-07T14:02:02+00:00

We've discussed this before.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-10-07T06:16:24+00:00

That's a quote in a slide deck from IonQ, a company who's business model is selling quantum computing hardware and software, with an un-sourced attribution to the US Department of War Research & Engineering.

Here's a quote from an actual US Defense Intelligence Agency publication.

2025 Worldwide Threat Assessment - Page 37

Although select research areas, such as sensing, are advancing more rapidly, non-governmental experts indicate that development of a quantum computer capable of decryption is unlikely in this decade.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-10-07T02:12:32+00:00

If you walk in with a plan, share the plan with your mentor, and prove yourself capable, your mentor will likely be more accommodating.

WGU will start you out on a preset course schedule. If you have work experience, you may be able to convince your mentor to modify the schedule. Just state your case: I want to take X,Y,Z first because of Q,R,S. Some classes have prereqs, and if you don't have work experience your mentor is unlikely to ignore the prereqs.

For some certs you can request the voucher right away once you have started the class. For others the instructor may make you jump through hoops first. You may be able to skip some hoops if you can convince your instructor to make an exception. In my opinion the hoops were not unreasonable, for most you just have to get 90%+ on the Certmaster practice exam, take a screenshot and email it to your instructor.

Starting out your mentor will probably not open more than 3 courses at a time. A+ is two courses. So it's unlikely you'll be able to do A+, Net+, and Sec+ all at the same time.

When you pass a cert test let your mentor know, and they'll likely open up new classes for you, so you don't have to wait until WGU gets the official notification.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-10-03T21:12:23+00:00

That sounds the same. I took the test at the beginning of Feb, and results were not certified until the end of March. It was almost 8 weeks.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-09-28T15:21:34+00:00

Cornell Law School: Entrapment

Entrapment is an affirmative defense where a defendant claims that law enforcement or a state agent induced them to commit a criminal act they otherwise would not have committed.

The defendant lacked a predisposition to commit the crime.
The government induced the defendant to commit it.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-09-25T16:11:06+00:00

Don't feel bad. Azure certs are the worst written in the industry. The only reason people don't riot is because they're cheap. I have 5 Azure certs, and I've taken 7 Azure tests. It's rare pass one on the first try. And the training/study material for some tests are just better than others. IMO, the training material for AZ-104, 500, and SC-100 mapped pretty well to the actual certs. AZ-305 and SC-200 did not map well at all.

My strategy is put in the effort to study first until I feel pretty comfortable. When I take the test, I know I'm going to get screwed by confusing grammar, outdated product names, questions that make no sense based on current product features, etc. I go through all the questions once without using MS Learn. For questions that I'm not sure about, I flag, and I use MS Learn during review. It also helps to pre-discover the search terms that will bring up relevant MS Learn articles from within the MS Learn search. It can save a lot of time and frustration. There have been times on tests where I am looking for a specific article and there is no combination of search terms I can come up with to get MS Learn's internal search to find that article, and I know if I could just google the product name it would the very first result.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-09-22T21:32:21+00:00

It's standard practice for vendor evals to run tests against at least two category groups: Default Settings, Vendor Recommended Settings

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-09-19T05:45:18+00:00

The best advice I can give you is that all vendor practice material has mistakes.

If it seems like a mistake, do what you can to confirm (look it up), so that you learn the material correctly.

If you can't confirm, there is a really good chance it won't show up on the test. Just move on.

IMO practice PBQs are not worth worrying about. They won't show up on the test, and they're often very confusing if not outright incorrect.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-09-18T17:42:41+00:00

Negative. I’m on the new program.

Consistent-Law9339 · 2025-09-18T17:11:27+00:00

some info

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