IT Team gets together and creates the hold from hell.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/29/it_helpdesk_creates_oh_hold_hell/

https://www.reddit.com/r/VOIP/comments/dypp36/20191119_critical_freepbx_security_vulnerability/

"There has been a criticial security vulnerability discovered in FreePBX which allows remote code execution without authentication."

v14/v15 should automatically update themselves. Earlier versions will not.

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

thanks

This is what's keeping me busy lately. Building a Chicken Coop, though we're calling it the Palace, for our girls.



We have Leghorns (apparently pronounced LegUrns, Rhode Island Red, and Plymouth Rock (black) to start.

Construction is 2x4 insulated 8' x 8' with the run being 20' x 8'. All those years in construction back in the day always seem to pay off in some way.

Apparently, I've been elected to be the one to get them from the coop to the table when the time comes.

@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So sad but true!

Why do so many companies have to hear it from an outsider before they believe it?

Prophet is never known as such in their own home land.

The announcement page: Starwood Guest Reservation Database Security Incident Marriott International

My thoughts on the matter though rather curtailed from what I really want to say due to polite company: Some Thoughts on the Starwood/Marriott Reservations Database Breach

@dustinb3403 It's been a while, but there's a set of files the Mac writes to all folders it touches. .DS_Store or something like that.

We've seen busy graphics houses have their file servers brought to their knees by this "feature".

These guys: https://dea.nbird.com.au/2014/11/19/windows-server-prevent-mac-files-on-shares-ds_store-_-trashes/

@Danp Whoever made the T-Shirt was probably too intimidated to mention the grammatical error or maybe let it go because the guy was a d*ck.

@WrCombs said in DHCP Question...:

This is for a friend of mine who asked me ; And Wanted to be able to send him a link to read up on DHCP Best practices and ideas on his situation.

He came to me and said "if you set up a dhcp why do you set up .2-.254 with a gate way of .1
don't you want to keep some open for Static IPs... for example: printers?"

what can I say to him other than .1 is reserved for gateway? .1 is the gateway so it can't be used in the scenario.

He is explaining to me that this company Cybera is setting up a firewall for him at his location and is curious why they would leave it that wide and open without any reserved Static IPS.

I'm sending him the link to this thread to have him read through the answers I get.

Our rule of thumb, and it's a "we've been doing it this way since ... so we keep doing it this way" situation, is to set up the full subnet in DHCP and then set exclusions for what we want to set aside for servers, printers, and the like. We generally set printers via reservation.

Here's a simple scope setup in PowerShell:

Add-DHCPServerInDC
Add-DHCPServerv4Scope -Name "OUR Local Scope" -StartRange 10.100.10.1 -EndRange 10.100.10.254 -SubnetMask 255.255.255.0
Add-DhcpServerv4ExclusionRange -ScopeID 10.100.10.0 -StartRange 10.100.10.1 -EndRange 10.100.10.49
Add-DhcpServerv4ExclusionRange -ScopeID 10.100.10.0 -StartRange 10.100.10.200 -EndRange 10.100.10.254
Set-DhcpServerv4OptionValue -ComputerName DC.Domain.com -DnsServer 10.100.10.254 -DnsDomain Domain.com -Router 10.100.10.1

@mlnews said in Why aren’t chip credit cards stopping “card present” fraud in the US?:

Fraud is on the rise despite a move to chip cards.

A security analysis firm called Gemini Advisory recently posted a report saying that credit card fraud is actually on the rise in the US. That's surprising, because the US is three years out from a big chip-based card rollout. Chip-based cards were supposed to limit card fraud in the US, which was out of control compared to similar fraud in countries that already used EMV (the name of the chip card standard)....

I remember reading comments from the American payment industry folks that basically said Americans were too stupid to do Chip & PIN. We've had it here for a very long time with TAP being a relatively recent addition. TAP is limited to $50 or $100 depending on merchant and product. It makes transactions fast versus any other method.

Swipe needs to be banned. Period.

Next up: RFID protection wallets. A must-have for frequent travelers.

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

A is positively the correct answer.

Kids in our family know what Eye-Dee-Ten-Tee (ID10T) and PEBKAC (Peb-Cack) mean.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Coffee good beer or other spirited libation better.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

That's about all Asus boards are good for IMNSHO of course.

This is fitting from the show Kung Fu:

Youtube Video

@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

And that's really the fundamental issue. At the end of the day, maybe for all the reasons I pointed out, in America while it sounds impossible... a very, very large number (percentage) of the population doesn't support mechanisms to reduce mass violence because they don't think that there is anything to fix in the first place. They don't actively want mass violence, they just don't see it as the big negative that the rest of us do. It's seen as simply an acceptable artifact of getting the things that they want more.

Until we address the fact that half the population is A-ok with the state of things because it gives them what they want more, making an argument for how to fix things will never work because they don't see anything wrong to fix in the first place. You can call it a mental illness epidemic that so many people actually are okay with what is happening, maybe it is. But that they are okay with it, is just how things are. But no one wants to admit that they are okay with it, so instead they say "you can't completely eliminate it, so let's not bother making it better."

Nothing I could ever have written could have made my point as strongly as someone who is actually willing to write how much they were okay with it posting crazy things to try to distract us from noticing that they aren't upset by the state of things at all.

I see your post as it's own slant against those who support gun rights. You've focused on the child killing aspect, but completely ignored the manage the government aspect to citizens owning guns.
I know the 2nd amendment is about the militia, but it's also about the people not being afraid of their own government, having the ability to rise up when it becomes to corrupt.

That's what I see when people don't want to take away guns - they weigh the costs of lives lost against their concerns of the government taking over - and their opinion of keeping the government in check wins.

This is very well said.

There's a pretty solid body of "evidence" from the writings of the Founding Fathers to the Declaration of Independence's clear statement that We the People have the right to throw off tyranny that make it clear the 2nd Amendment had a very specific purpose of keeping Gov in check.

EDIT: And recent SCOTUS and state SC rulings back this up.

SCOTUS is a puppet of their masters - I'm not saying I disagree in the specific instance, but they clearly are voting along political lines - I don't believe they are taking the constitution into mind much anymore.

I concur with that observation.

The "conservative" judges seem to be ruling towards the Constitution while the "left leaning(?)" judges are legislating from the bench.

Ours up here legislate from the bench a lot. Our previous Prime Minister, today's PM's Papa, who put our current Constitution of 1984 into place wrote all sorts of loopholes into it so that our rights are basically nil/nul. Oh, and that the West can be permanently bent over to the tune of over $600B transferred to QC and elsewhere over the last half a century. We're Communism Lite with a leaning towards the Gulags if Dear Leader could have his way (publicly stated: I admire China's "basic" dictatorship).

@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

And that's really the fundamental issue. At the end of the day, maybe for all the reasons I pointed out, in America while it sounds impossible... a very, very large number (percentage) of the population doesn't support mechanisms to reduce mass violence because they don't think that there is anything to fix in the first place. They don't actively want mass violence, they just don't see it as the big negative that the rest of us do. It's seen as simply an acceptable artifact of getting the things that they want more.

Until we address the fact that half the population is A-ok with the state of things because it gives them what they want more, making an argument for how to fix things will never work because they don't see anything wrong to fix in the first place. You can call it a mental illness epidemic that so many people actually are okay with what is happening, maybe it is. But that they are okay with it, is just how things are. But no one wants to admit that they are okay with it, so instead they say "you can't completely eliminate it, so let's not bother making it better."

Nothing I could ever have written could have made my point as strongly as someone who is actually willing to write how much they were okay with it posting crazy things to try to distract us from noticing that they aren't upset by the state of things at all.

I see your post as it's own slant against those who support gun rights. You've focused on the child killing aspect, but completely ignored the manage the government aspect to citizens owning guns.
I know the 2nd amendment is about the militia, but it's also about the people not being afraid of their own government, having the ability to rise up when it becomes to corrupt.

That's what I see when people don't want to take away guns - they weigh the costs of lives lost against their concerns of the government taking over - and their opinion of keeping the government in check wins.

This is very well said.

There's a pretty solid body of "evidence" from the writings of the Founding Fathers to the Declaration of Independence's clear statement that We the People have the right to throw off tyranny that make it clear the 2nd Amendment had a very specific purpose of keeping Gov in check.

EDIT: And recent SCOTUS and state SC rulings back this up.

@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

Criminals gonna perp. Guns gonna be available to them in perpetuity. That has not changed since perps smuggled spears into "spear free zones" and started slashing.

reminds me of Back to the Future 3 - Tannan with a gun in his hat

Yeah - you're not wrong.

Short of killing all ability to acquire shooting weapons - specific no-shooty weapons zones will always be hit by the criminals.

And even once you make shooty's illegal - it will probably take 30+ years to get enough off the streets before you actually see a decline in violence caused by them.

It's just an impractical battle from the anti-shooty people.

Real world examples say that you can take guns away quickly and effectively. It's been done in large countries before to great effect. You can want or not want gun control of different sorts, that's a different issue. But the ability to take them off of the streets and make them all but impossible to get and easy to identify when rogue (that's the biggest deal) is actually quite easy and the US is anything but an exception to the norm.

Gun related crimes do not go away when firearms are removed from the hands of citizens. Gangs be gangs and perps be perps. The cost of an off market firearm may go up as a result of the restrictions, but they are still available.

That's a solid sound bite, but statistically isn't valid. For two reasons... criminals take the path of least resistance and difficult (and risky) to obtain firearms are proven to be very hard for criminals to get. And when guns are a giveaway that you are a criminal it is way, way easier to stop someone than when carrying weapons is considered part of normal life and you can't identify a threat until it is too late.

In the real world, we know this works, it's already proven the world over. The more guns society has, the more likely they are to be fired. The fewer, the less. That doesn't mean we should go to zero guns or that guns themselves are the issue. It's just a statistical fact and a means to start reducing the violence if reducing the violence is the goal. The problem isn't knowing how to reduce violence, it's making it something that the nation prioritizes.

Citations please. Show me one society that removed firearms from citizen's hands that had zero gun related crime. I'll wait.

See.... this is the EXACT argument people make in IT about all kinds of things that's so wrong. Such horrible business (or anything) logic.

If the proposed solution only IMPROVES things, but doesn't 100% solve them, that is used as an excuse to not fix what can be fixed.

"Oh seatbelts don't stop ALL accidents, then I won't wear them."

If the "best" solution isn't perfect, you choose a known lesser solution. This kind of approach is used only when you already know that it is better and you are attempting a distraction. That you depend a 100% solution and aren't interested in improvement tells us that your goal is not to improve things at all.

TL;DR
Nope. Not saying that at all.

We live in an era where there have been so many attempts at tyranny across the world since the late 1880s. Look it up.

Why would that be?

Cuba was "successful" but not robust enough to handle a large population. Heh, Beetles and duct taped 1950s cars? No way.

The Soviets couldn't beat or Vodka Christ out of the people so Soviet Communism eventually failed.

Chiang-Kai Shek brought Soviet Communism to China but failed. Mao, however, took that base and modified it to work with the Chinese ethos.

And voila! We have the "perfect" system for managing gobs of people. The tech was slowly developed to manage them (us) as well. But, there's still missing pieces in this puzzle thus the 10 year Agenda 2030.

But, we don't want gobs of people now do we? See Georgia Guidestones #1 (Thomas Malthus).

How do we go about reducing the world's population and make sure everyone's on board as much as possible?

Remember, too many people are way harder to control so bringing down the world population count is important.

See bug #1 and I'm suspecting that bug #2 (remember all the hemorrhagic fever stuff before the Beijing Olympics?) was destroyed by the Russians in Ukraine (they've been dripping evidence drops every week. Lots of interesting stuff with names named). Even the bug's transportation methods have been brought forward (truck crash with "bug" laden moneys anyone?).

The monkey wrench in the works is the 250M+ armed American people plus a substantial portion of them being a part of the most powerful military in the world. Plus, Patriots have been using the system set up by the American Fore Fathers to take the country back. It's a beautiful thing to see.

There are three stars on their flag:

• London
• Vatican
• Washington DC
  Why are they? Who are they? And the big question is: Who controls them?

The historical patterns are obvious. The step-by-step we've been in over the last three years is obvious. See my previous comment: Alice Bailey & Saul Alinsky primarily.

The other monkey wrench in the works: The Bolsheviks and the Maoists had an important key ingredient: Poverty.

The West is too wealthy to see a Communist/Fascist (ideology does not matter it all ends in the same place: Top Down) structure as acceptable especially after seeing, even if glimpses, the atrocities committed by the Soviets and the CCP. It may not be a conscious thing but any indication of tyranny from our so-called "benevolent" governments stir emotions and responses the incoming tyrant(s) don't want to stir.

Frog, see pot.

Our systems are infiltrated. They are corrupted.

Watching so-called law enforcement trample innocents who have the right to protest with horses (Ottawa) should have been a wake-up call. Not sure it has been though. There have been lots of instances of abuse of our rights here in Canuckistan and down there.

Not knowing history means we're doomed to repeat it and there's always a group willing to take advantage of that.

So, here we are.

@JaredBusch said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

Citations please. Show me one society that removed firearms from citizen's hands that had zero gun related crime. I'll wait.

Except that is not what he said. So why should he have to prove something he did no say?

Less guns means less gun crime. Basic statistics there.

For a country that is an example? Japan. Yesterday's assassination highlights how low the gun crime rate is there. Guns are exceedingly heavily controlled. Gun crime is basically non-existent. Most gun crimes that do happen are happening with illegal guns.

Obviously, illegal gun are going to be mostly operated by criminals. Otherwise, they would not be illegal. Criminals are going to be much more likely to use their gun than a law abiding citizen.

Circular Argument right there.

"Illegal guns" <-- Um, yeah. They ain't going away. Tell me the Yakuza has absolutely no firearms in their possession.

@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

Gun control is, I think, a red herring, though. I'm 100% confident that taking away guns takes away guns and that while "bad people can always find a way" global statics show that that's a pointless argument because it makes it effectively true and that's all that matters for safety.

Obviously if there were truly zero guns mass shootings would be impossible. But I think it's also obvious that mass knifings, mass bombings, mass driving into crowds and other forms of horrific destruction would replace them. Taking away guns makes it harder, and reduces the body count. But it doesn't solve the underlying problems.

Mental healthy, high stress, a torn society, a lack of social bonding, horrific education standards, religious hatred, government corruption, a constant stream of "there is no future"... all add into the mass shooting or mass whatever problem, I think. The question here isn't why is it mass SHOOTINGs, that's easy... because guns are the easiest way to MASS do anything. What Dash is asking is why the increase in MASS something or others.

Well said.

Alice Bailey's 10-Step dismantling of a Western Society and the basis for the UN's Charter.

Saul Alinsky's battle plans for destroying from within.

Lenin and Marx.

The ideology really doesn't matter as far as branding goes. Peeps gonna hurt on other peeps. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is. That being said, there's a subset of peeps (Catherine Austin Fitts - Planet Lockdown) who believe themselves above and beyond us evolved forward if you will. The game is truly global and diabolical with the narrative and house of cards coming down the pushes for a worldwide government/tyrannical structure are getting more and more insane. It's actually neat to see but painful for us Canucks and others around the world.