@Dashrender said in Couples Nest Security Hacked:

The homeowner could have also had UPNP enabled in their firewall allowing the hackers to gain direct access

Is that possible with Nest?

Arjun Sud is now aware that using complex passwords and adding two-factor authentication can reduce security risks, but had not known about the option before.

I'll just leave this here.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Google+ shuts down April 2, all data will be deleted

Google's failed Facebook clone will be scrubbed from the Internet.

Google's support page details exactly how the G+ shutdown will go down, and it's not just freezing posts on the site. The whole site will be taken down, and everything will be deleted. "On April 2nd, your Google+ account and any Google+ pages you created will be shut down and we will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts," the page reads.

It's odd because I actually liked Google+. I enjoyed the layout and how it was meant to be used. But then they made some changes to Facebook-ify it and it just got super weird.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

A Surveillance Wall Is Not a Good Alternative to a Concrete Wall

If there’s one political dynamic that’s become perfectly clear in 2019, it’s this: President Trump is calling for a physical wall to be built along the U.S. southern border. Trump's political opponents, and many other groups, oppose that wall.

In response, some congressional Democrats have suggested building up a kind of virtual wall, built on surveillance technology. They’d like to expand social media screening, deploy drones, scan license plates (and not just from cars crossing the border), and even collect DNA from immigrants. All of these methods raise serious privacy concerns.

At EFF, we’re staying focused on making sure any new border measure protects the essential liberties of both U.S. residents and foreign visitors. The border shouldn't be treated like a Constitution-free zone.

Except it's pretty much just that.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

My dad just got home from a doctor's appointment and said it was insane driving up there in NY.

My wife lost her road... literally was driving on it one minute and it was just gone under a blizzard the next. She's up in Fort Plain area right now.

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming Rig Issues:

@travisdh1 said in Gaming Rig Issues:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming Rig Issues:

@smartkid808 said in Gaming Rig Issues:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming Rig Issues:

lol. . . why are you wanting to spend so much money on a Heatsink and fan?

since its RGB...lol.. why, is this considered a small heat sink? Do you have any RGB heatsink recommendations?

But it's still a "proxy cooling system".

Just get a large copper/aluminum heatsink and connect it directly to the board.

If you really want you can add additional case fans, but they likely aren't required.

Water is more effective than air at thermal transfer, so the theory goes. Today the only real difference is that you can have a much larger surface area and multiple fans covering that area compared to air cooling. If the water block is only large enough to have space to mount a single fan, or 2 fans on the same plane (push/pull), then air coolers are actually more efficient for less money.

It is, but the water has to be cooled by air. So that "theory" is a sales tactic. It's a gimmick. There are two values to water coolers...

1. It shifts the primary location of the cooling system from inside the case to the edge allowing the air cooling area to be larger.
2. It itself is a large "heat well" allowing more buffer in case of failure.

That's it.

You can also, generally, have much bigger fans which turn slower if being quiet is important to you. But if it's an RGB setup I doubt noise in much of a factor.

@scottalanmiller said in Skyetel Inbound SIP Trunk on FreePBX:

@coliver said in Skyetel Inbound SIP Trunk on FreePBX:

@Dashrender said in Skyetel Inbound SIP Trunk on FreePBX:

Basically - to add another phone is $500.

For that price you could be on FreePBX.

He needs handsets, though. That's his financial hump to overcome.

Yeah I think I remember this from another conversation.

@Dashrender said in Skyetel Inbound SIP Trunk on FreePBX:

Basically - to add another phone is $500.

For that price you could be on FreePBX.

@Dashrender said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

I suppose, but why does the typical US company give only 2 weeks vacation, where europe starts at 4+?

Because they can?

I'm a few episodes into The Orville. It's really enjoyable so far. Seth MacFarlane may actually be the weakest actor in the show. The humor is decent and not over the top (like Family Guy or American Dad) and it feels much more like a Star Trek show then some of the recent ones.

Although I don't disagree with you most American's can be pretty nationalistic when it comes to "travel" and prefer to stay in the lower 48.... if not just a few states from their home.

@scottalanmiller said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

I'm not saying that domestic travel isn't valid, just that to most of the world when you say "I like to travel" they assume you mean international. Not "I drive nearby on the weekend."

In Panama, for example, traveling to a different region to go to the beach is not considered travel, it's just what you do on weekends. In America, going to Florida for the weekend is considered a travel activity. Same thing, different viewpoints of the same activity.

To be fair most countries (outside of China, Russia, and India) have a miniscule landmass compared to the US. It doesn't take then 18 hours to drive to province in the same nation.

@travisdh1 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:

#2 Hyper-V made doing storage passthrough a PITA last I checked, so you add the drives as a single volume to the host and then create a single vhd that uses the entire space of the volume.

You'd also almost never want to do this. It's stupid and breaks many of the advantages of virtualization. Let the hypervisor manage the storage.

@DustinB3403 There is no "Drink Coffee" in there.

@Dashrender said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

@coliver said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

@Dashrender said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

@coliver said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

@Dashrender said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

@scottalanmiller said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

Because you need a passport to GO somewhere else in the US.

You do? Since when do you need a passport to travel between states in the US? I'm going to Chicago next week - I don't plan to take my passport.

Next year there are quite a few states that will if you're traveling by air.

For instance the US government will require NY residents to have an enhanced license or carry their passports around to travel by air to anywhere in the US. I believe that Pennsylvania, California, and a few others will be in the same boat. You can get the older, cheaper, non-RealID compliant license but you won't be able to fly interstate with it.

Looks like being in Nebraska - that's covered by our newer standard driver's license. I'm sure there are some states that will allow a non real ID compliant card to be the base, then citizens will have to purchase an upgraded card - but damn.. that should just be the required standard since this is going to be a federal requirement.

Though, this is not really the same as a passport.

To get my new ID, I had to produce two billing statements with different companies with my name/address on them - and my old ID. This is nothing like a Passport check.

Right, the point is that if you don't have the enhanced/RealID drivers license you will be required to have a passport to fly.

Starting next year?

I wonder how they are going to enforce that? Will the TSA agent be the one enforcing it when they are checking your boarding pass? I'm sure you don't know, I'm just wondering out loud.

Yes, the TSA will be unable to accept non-RealID compliant identification.

Honestly I'd just be airdropping pictures of this.

@Dashrender said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

@coliver said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

@Dashrender said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

@scottalanmiller said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

Because you need a passport to GO somewhere else in the US.

You do? Since when do you need a passport to travel between states in the US? I'm going to Chicago next week - I don't plan to take my passport.

Next year there are quite a few states that will if you're traveling by air.

For instance the US government will require NY residents to have an enhanced license or carry their passports around to travel by air to anywhere in the US. I believe that Pennsylvania, California, and a few others will be in the same boat. You can get the older, cheaper, non-RealID compliant license but you won't be able to fly interstate with it.

Looks like being in Nebraska - that's covered by our newer standard driver's license. I'm sure there are some states that will allow a non real ID compliant card to be the base, then citizens will have to purchase an upgraded card - but damn.. that should just be the required standard since this is going to be a federal requirement.

Though, this is not really the same as a passport.

To get my new ID, I had to produce two billing statements with different companies with my name/address on them - and my old ID. This is nothing like a Passport check.

Right, the point is that if you don't have the enhanced/RealID drivers license you will be required to have a passport to fly.

@Dashrender said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

@coliver said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

@Dashrender said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

@scottalanmiller said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

Because you need a passport to GO somewhere else in the US.

You do? Since when do you need a passport to travel between states in the US? I'm going to Chicago next week - I don't plan to take my passport.

Next year there are quite a few states that will if you're traveling by air.

For instance the US government will require NY residents to have an enhanced license or carry their passports around to travel by air to anywhere in the US. I believe that Pennsylvania, California, and a few others will be in the same boat. You can get the older, cheaper, non-RealID compliant license but you won't be able to fly interstate with it.

Now that you mention that - I do recall hearing something about that.

NY got an extension IIRC and it will be required in 2020... but there are some states that didn't get the extension and the requirements went into effect in 2018.

@Dashrender said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

@scottalanmiller said in Moving to Guaranteed Basic Income:

Because you need a passport to GO somewhere else in the US.

You do? Since when do you need a passport to travel between states in the US? I'm going to Chicago next week - I don't plan to take my passport.

Next year there are quite a few states that will if you're traveling by air.

For instance the US government will require NY residents to have an enhanced license or carry their passports around to travel by air to anywhere in the US. I believe that Pennsylvania, California, and a few others will be in the same boat. You can get the older, cheaper, non-RealID compliant license but you won't be able to fly interstate with it.

@tonyshowoff said in How did you get started in IT?:

world's largest ISPs (more like an internet gateway at the time)

Was it AOL?