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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 24
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RE: 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?:
Yup. And there's a distinct/direct correlation between guns and crime and the Democrat Party.
Please expand that thought.
Chicago - Shots, Shots, Shots
DC - Shots, Shots, ShotsAgain, look at the FBI statistics. It's not hard to put together what party affiliation the anti-gun powers that be belong to.
We live in an era of "Think this way because experts say so" without anyone taking the time to actually dig in to the statistics. That's all it takes is to put some effort and critical thinking skills into something to figure out who is blowing it out their arse and who is not.
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RE: 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?:
@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Yup. And there's a distinct/direct correlation between guns and crime and the Democrat Party.
Please expand that thought.
Chicago - Shots, Shots, Shots
DC - Shots, Shots, ShotsAgain, look at the FBI statistics. It's not hard to put together what party affiliation the anti-gun powers that be belong to.
We live in an era of "Think this way because experts say so" without anyone taking the time to actually dig in to the statistics. That's all it takes is to put some effort and critical thinking skills into something to figure out who is blowing it out their arse and who is not.
I'm not sure I agree with that specific outlook - you don't have causation there.
What do you have is HUGE population, low wages -
most large metros in the USA are voting democrats.What you are more likely saying is - those who hate guns for whatever reason are voting them out - but that's also voting gun violence up. the voters aren't looking at the cause of the actual violence. just one thing that's part of the violence.
After 40+ years you'd think they would realize that getting rid of guns (not sure that they really have) hasn't worked - it's time to try something new - but those new things are VERY hard and require even greater sacrifices to accomplish.
I agree. I see states that are pulling in concealed carry and training for teachers. That's a good start.
Where do the most violent crimes/mass shooting happen? In so-called "gun free zones".
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.
EDIT: As far as causation goes, no, one could attribute factors across the board. But, and it's a big one, the catch is that all large centers have similar attributes as far as poverty, unemployment, and so on. Once we factor that in, the party demarks become a lot clearer.
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RE: YASLV (Yet Another Spectre-Like Variant) - Spoiler
I concur. We're not putting much effort into our on-premises solution sets as the user there is the low hanging fruit and primary attack vector anyway.
For our hosting solutions though, what a PITA.
We coach our hosting contractors on locking down RDS to help mitigate any PEBKAC issues (ID10T types). And for the most part, they've been very successful as we have many examples of the "steel toed boots" preventing the bullet to the foot so to speak.
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RE: 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?:
EDIT: As far as causation goes, no, one could attribute factors across the board. But, and it's a big one, the catch is that all large centers have similar attributes as far as poverty, unemployment, and so on. Once we factor that in, the party demarks become a lot clearer.
Please show me a large, I mean 1 million plus (and that might even be to small) metro that doesn't lean all liberal/democrat.
Nebraska a typically Red state is now a purple state because the single large metro is so liberal/democrat.
Once the 2020 election gets fixed I'll believe the Democrat Party
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RE: Remote Hyper-V Manager Woes
@scottalanmiller said in Remote Hyper-V Manager Woes:
@PhlipElder said in Remote Hyper-V Manager Woes:
For a standalone Hyper-V server though that's a 12lb sledge for a 3" spike. Just a tad.
Much like RDS.
Yup. That's why PowerShell Remoting is da bomb!
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RE: Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?
@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@pmoncho said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@pmoncho said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
Another possible reason I thought of was, sheer boredom with "idle hands."
Heck, "They started quarreling out of sheer boredom" is used as the example in the Cambridge dictionary.
So to that end:
I'm wondering if lately, the whole trophy for everyone/entitlement mentality is a driving force for younger people doing this.
It's possible. One would think inclusion would give a sense of pride but maybe it is having the reverse affect.
Inclusion stops once they are out of school and the real world smacks them upside the head. There is no inclusion in the normal workforce.
That said - all the under 24 year olds - well - I'm not sure school is really that inclusive, children certainly are not. Age is what generally bring pemper to people... You see all kinds of collage age people protesting, etc - but the older folk - not so much. The youth are generally the ones really bucking the system, that "teenage rebellion stage" which lasts well into most of their 20's...
We home school. We do so for good reason.
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RE: Network Issues on Copiers and HP Enterprise Printers
@garak0410 said in Network Issues on Copiers and HP Enterprise Printers:
Security Error 33.05.13
You've probably already seen this one:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04921512#AbT1No mention of .13 either. Hmmmm
The fact that the printer boots okay until a network is present indicates it is probably reaching out and hitting a "you're bad" response (best guess).
If the firmware is up to date then one "workaround" would be to set up on the edge an Address Object (using SonicWALL terminology here) for the affected printers and their IPs (if range then do the range), then set a block for HTTP/HTTPS for them/their range. One could also set a full port block in place since they shouldn't be contacting the Internet anyway IMO.
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RE: Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?
@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
@pmoncho said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:
If not then, I think the parents/adults believe it is for their children's mental protection and will do anything to not let them feel bad. The rest of the planet knows in the long term the mockery is detrimental to their children's future.
As a parent, I think exactly the opposite and I see the toll the constant mockery has on others. Kids know very well when they get "praised" for doing badly.
Our job is to teach our kids "Sticks & Stones" and "Water off a duck's back".
A person's dignity and integrity has nothing to do with what other people think of them.
I don't give a flying fook what others think of me or my opinions and my value as a human being has nothing to do with what others think as well.
The value of the human person is intrinsic to being human. It's what sets us apart from the animals.
We live in a Clown world where peep's feelings trump everything and others need to be psychic or something to not "harm" them or do "violence" to them with words. What poppycock.
Kids will be cruel. It's what they do. How one learns to deal with it is how one can succeed in a world where others will do actual violence to them to get ahead. So, teach them street smarts in person and virtually and always be cautious around others.
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RE: Any good DRaaS suggestions?
@scottalanmiller said in Any good DRaaS suggestions?:
@PhlipElder said in Any good DRaaS suggestions?:
SPX supports instant-on via file convert to VHDX/VMDK. Having those files sent to a DR site that is set up to fire the VMs up on short order would work well.
Not many cloud providers will take that format. So that can be a complication if you aren't ready for it. Then you need the networking, in most cases, to handle connecting the new cloud pieces to the existing network transparently.
Yeah, the whole process sounds easy but ...
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RE: Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?
@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.
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RE: Raid10, must use or another Raid limits?
We run with RAID 6.
Modern RAID controllers have the horsepower and cache RAM that is flash backed to overcome any real parity performance costs.
Rebuild times will be the killer plus some performance cost for a failed disk.
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RE: Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?
@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.
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RE: deleted/corrupt partition
@pattonb GetDataBack by Run Time Software. Used it recently to recover data from an Apple MacBook Air SSD.
The last recovery was via easeUS recovery software where GDB failed for some reason to find the deleted checkpoint file (.AVHDX).
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RE: 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?:
@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).
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RE: Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?
@dafyre Usually just one though the Surprised Removed message could be quite frequent with no impact to users. They were Event Log pollution.
We had one client we set up a pair of clusters for that decided to go with FSLogix because of the issues they were experiencing with native UPDs. That was on Server 2016.
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RE: Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?
@wrx7m We have not deployed anything RDS related without User Profile Disks in close to a decade now. I can think of maybe one exception and that was because it was a very small setup with no need for anything else plus it was temporary.
User Profile Disks whether native or FSLogix, which is now included with RDS CALs by default, is the way to go.
They make adding Session Hosts or additional collections to the farm so much easier to do when located on a file server.
If someone blows-up their profile or it gets corrupted then SIDFinder to figure out their UPD, log them off, rename the UPD, log them on, configure their profile, mount the old UPD, and copy the needed data in if this is needed at all. Note that I am speaking specifically of something within the local profile getting corrupted here.
We would not deploy an all-in-one or farm RDS configuration at all without a UPD setup. Period.
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RE: Random Thread - Anything Goes
@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Toss this at the fam as I was clueless in this matter.
This we came up with:
Roses are Red
I am Groot
Have you seen my Super Suit?