I'd be more than happy to move into a cyber-security position, having formerly been a network admin and support technician. I don't however have a host of cyber-security certs as they were never a core part of my job. If these people wanted someone with related experience who would be easy to train, I'd be a great fit. However, they don't even respond to my submissions.

Having read the article he mentions that he has a 'home lab' and noticed issues when 'giving a presentation'. So he seems to be working from home (like many right now) and is in a field which generates large amounts of data which needs to be shared with others. He's not 'running a business', but I'd guess he's a researcher of some sort though for confidentiality reasons we aren't told exactly what he does. I'd also guess it's probably materials or chemical research.

If I recall correctly I left in 2001 to move back closer to my family (well and the buddy I'd been renting with got addicted to drugs and ran off). I'd initially lived in Reynoldsburg in... '96? I think that's right. Then a few months in Canal Winchester. Beofre going elsewhere in Reyboldsburg. Those however were with larger groups (4-5 people) and I'm not sure how much rent was. In 2000 me and my buddy at the time decided to go in together on a new place with fewer people and that was in Galloway, though we'd looked all over before settling in there: Dublin, Westerville, Gahanna, Arlington... We tried for ages to find something cheaper, but kept getting told we'd need to make like 18k/year or less to get anything we found that was cheaper and at the time we both worked tier 2 tech support for ~30k/year.

However, it's quite likely things have changed since 2001. I haven't been back since then. Also you were also really close to OSU. They area had been known for having some really nice facilities (like the movie theater near campus), though housing not so much. People with money were moving more towards Worthington a few miles north. Though in general people were moving out of the city proper and new apartment complexes were going up everywhere in the suburbs. Pricing of housing hadn't reflected the push toward the suburbs though.

Figuring they mean 'Columbus Ohio', then I used to live there. Columbus has a lot of banks and insurance companies which make their homes there. It was big on COBOL and SQL when I was there ~20 years ago. However 'cheap' it was not. I rented an apartment with a buddy of mine and it was ~2k/month which was 50% of our combined income at the time. Anything cheaper was considered 'low income housing' and you had to make under some very low values to qualify. Compared to some places that was probably 'cheap', but it was quite expensive when I wasn't making over 100k/year.

Where I live now (~200 miles away from Columbus) I make way less than 50k/year, but even with the rise of housing costs over the last 20 years renting an apartment is less than 1k/month. Heck I could buy a house for ~1.2k/month. So cost of living is much lower. However, my disposable income is also considerably lower.

Another issue is having the space for it. Often VR requires a good bit of open space and setting up sensors around the spot you'll use it in. This is been my issue with VR since the prices dropped to around the cost of a game console for a headset. My PC lives in my office which is full of stuff and isn't large to begin with. It's an oddly shaped 15x10 foot space in a corner of my house. I need a 5x5 foot space for most VR kits, but that is a hard fit when the room is a 'L' shape.

I have space in my living room, but that's not where I want my PC and moving my desk and everything out there would eat up a lot of it's current space.

So yeah... For anyone in a small apartment or house, VR has another issue entirely.

How would they ever own a 75,000 dollar car though? That's the flip side of moving where the salaries are lower, major ticket items are priced for those expensive regions and can easily go over your year income. Cars in particular. Making 'good money' in my area is less than the cost of all, but the cheapest new cars. It's why 'used cars' dominate my region. Other goods though that are like that: PCs, electronics in general, clothes, etc. They just don't usually go above the average salary in cost, instead they can be a big chunk of a salary.

Seriously? "bringing more people into an already overcrowded world" is a joke., You most likely don't live in India or China. Instead you likely live in Europe or the US who have near neutral birth rates. Complaining about an 'overcrowded world' in places that really are not overcrowded is just stupid.

As someone who wears glasses... 3D annoys me a lot. You have to wear these crappy glasses over your glasses and because they weren't ever meant to be worn over other glasses they don't fit right. It annoys me in theaters, I don't even want to think about that at home. Some TVs did tricks to do 3D without the glasses, but those tend to have very limited viewing angles.

That probably still wouldn't get my parent to give up their 15-20 year old first gen HDTV (720p) CRT TV. The own a LCD TV, but that's not the one in the living room that they use 12 hours a day.

It also doesn't take into account that some people, like myself, are introverts. We tend to want small groups of good friends over dozens or hundreds of people we 'know' as 'friends' like facebook deals in. Much like a lot of medical and diet research this assumes everyone is perfectly identical and there are no differences.

In the meantime no one can remember all these passwords and writes them down, making it super easy for anyone to know the persons password. I have worked at a college with a 90 day password change policy (and long complex passwords) and 75% of people had a sticky note somewhere around their desk with their current password on it because almost no one could remember them all. At the time I worked support and when going onsite I could easily have collected almost everyones passwords if I wanted. Most of IT didn't really remember the (multiple) sets of passwords either and so made use of password keychain programs to remember for them.

I always found concepts like ITSM silly. Very little of it has any proof backing up their 'scores', but yet so much of the industry just accepts it.

Having once worked in retail, that's a sign that they have had theft issues. The whole "Are you finding everything ok?" is not about helping customers, but instead it is about keeping an eye out for thieves. I used to argue that the whole thing was silly and would just piss me off if I was the legitimate customer, but the higher ups seemed to think it was the best thing since sliced bread.

I've never experienced any slower response then I would with any other web browser using it... and heck you don't need the client to buy things as you can use the web site if you want. You do need the client to download the games (& play them), but that interface is pretty simple and not slow (it's all on your PC).

However I've been using steam for... 9 or 10 years...? So I've had issues at times in there, but also found it much better than buying from a store. And among all possible stores, it usually has what I want to buy. GoG still has a limited library (though it is improving), Origin is still mostly EA, Uplay is only Ubisoft, and the Windows Store has what... basic apps and mobile games?

I think MS forgot that some of us (like myself) have hundreds of games in Steam. Unless MS plan to do what GoG did and let me have my games on whichever service I use, then I'll keep using Steam because that's where my games are. I have seen nothing in the windows store I want to buy and so I don't own any games there. Maybe they should keep looking at making compelling products that make me want to buy them and not making the largest competing service, where I do own stuff, worse?

I live in PA. Which is pretty firmly east coast (though ironically OH gets considered midwest at times), but we farm here as well (upstate NY does as well). I've personally never been midwest or west at all really (never left my timezone), so I have no idea what other places are like.