Controversial posts made by DustinB3403

@JasGot said in Datto AP60:

If I had the answer, I'd gladly give it to him with any BS attached.

That's just it*, this Datta AP60 is something of a unicorn that most people probably have never heard of, so the answer, google it and find out is as valid as anything else.

I think @dbeato is the only person on this thread who's said he's dealt with these. For this community that's a boon for soon.

But that doesn't address the real question that @WrCombs is asking, which still hasn't been clarified.

@WrCombs said in Datto AP60:

Wondering what i'm getting myself into.

To which the vast majority of this community would have to go and do the very same thing that was originally recommended. Look it up, if there was a specific question on how to setup an SSID on these someone with experience could create a guide - like @JaredBusch did with the Ubiquiti controller guide.

@coliver said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dustinb3403 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dashrender said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dustinb3403 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@penguinwrangler said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@momurda no it is not taxed as income. https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service/questions

Even worse! Meaning they are just giving you an extra $63K over the term. Go find a job that pays that extra money per year and pay your debts.

As stated above, it's not over a year, but over 10 years, so only $6,300 a year of value.

Which is well within the realm of realistic private job market value.

Not sure what your point is? The entire point of this loan repayment/forgiveness plan is to incentivise people to work in the public sector. Making the public sector marginally competitive with the private is kind of the point.

Private and public sector jobs need to be filled all the same. Why incentives one rather than simply making the pay comparable?

The reason is because there is no private sector judicial system (or anything even remotely comparable in this case). If the government allowed individual businesses to be the court system, what point does the government serve?

The job is there, it needs to be filled by a candidate who is proven to be licensed in the required field. There are plenty of public requirements that can be used as benefits outside of paying for their education that are built in as a part of the position. Like transportation, room and board etc.

A lot of public employees are given "company cars" etc.

Removing someone debt for a public sector job like this doesn't help the matter of the national debt at all. It only compounds it.

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

US historians on what Donald Trump's legacy will be

At noon on Wednesday, President Donald Trump's term will end. It's been a whirlwind four years, so what might the legacy be of such a history-making president?
Matthew Continetti is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement. Donald Trump will be remembered as the first president to be impeached twice. He fed the myth that the election was stolen, summoned his supporters to Washington to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote, told them that only through strength could they take back their country, and stood by as they stormed the US Capitol and interfered in the operation of constitutional government. When historians write about his presidency, they will do so through the lens of the riot.

TL:DR Donald Trump will be remembered as a misogynistic, white supremist racist asshole who was self dealing and impeached twice for his conduct.

@wrx7m said in Printer Leasing/Maintenance - Installing Software on the Network for Monitoring Print Devices:

We are looking at starting a leasing program for our printers. It seems like this would be common, but I wanted to confirm- They want to install a program

"That will only ping your devices once a day to get meter reads, report issues for servicing purposes and allow us to manage your account better and more efficiently by maintaining your devices on a pro-active basis."

Any issues with this?

This is normal, otherwise they'd have to have someone call them with the numbers from each printer on a regular schedule to get your toner levels, click counts etc.

@zachary715 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dustinb3403 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@zachary715 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

Just curious @DustinB3403 how you feel about scholarships given prior to attending college, even without knowing if that individual will get a "meaningful" degree. Or how you feel about athletic scholarships that pay for school just because of a skill that rarely translates to a job down the road.

Scholarships are based on proven metrics, I don't have an issue here in most cases. I've also never received any.

Grades, athletic performance etc etc. In the public space, say community college giving an athletic scholarship I think is worthless and a waste of resources.

Academic scholarships I see as worthwhile and worth the investment.

I've seen people with high GPA and ACT (SAT) scores get lots of money for college only to blow it partying and on worthless degrees. I think I'd rather someone get the scholarship on the back-end (forgiveness/help with repayment) after they've proved their worth vs some bogus test they took at 16 years old.

I can agree with this, if there was any decent way to calculate the file cost of education. I wouldn't want this benefit to balloon to 6 figures.

@Mario-Jakovina said in Is Open Source Really So Much More Secure By Nature:

I have met dozens of companies in my country (few, banks, few ISPs), and I do not know of single one that uses Linux for their desktops or laptops.

That's what's being discussed, who is using a Linux Desktop - few as we've discussed repeatedly.

Besides me and my family, I can't think of anyone that uses Linux on their desktops or laptops.
Even I still use Windows most of time (becuase of Excel and few other great apps I miss on Linux)

I don't know that I would call Excel a great app. IMO it's mediocre at, while I agree it has some features other spreadsheet solutions are adding these too.

Server installations are different story, of course

Yeah, even Microsoft says that Linux servers are deployed more than any other OS in Azure. I'm certain AWS, Alibaba etc are all the same.

(sorry for late reply)

No worries.

The encrypted USB drive may be the most appropriate method to do this. Is this XP system in a locked cabinet and only accessible via a lock and key? I ask because if just anyone could plug a USB into this system, then you have other issues to content with.

@dashrender said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dustinb3403 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@penguinwrangler said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@momurda no it is not taxed as income. https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service/questions

Even worse! Meaning they are just giving you an extra $63K over the term. Go find a job that pays that extra money per year and pay your debts.

As stated above, it's not over a year, but over 10 years, so only $6,300 a year of value.

Which is well within the realm of realistic private job market value.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

update: Upgrade stopped before installing, said My Graphic card is not compatible with Windows 10.

What kind of video card?

Can you install from scratch, and not upgrade?

He has to install from scratch as there is no process to go from the Home edition to the Pro edition.

@syko24 said in Is SMB 1.0 more vulnerable at the client level or server level:

@Dashrender said in Is SMB 1.0 more vulnerable at the client level or server level:

@JaredBusch said in Is SMB 1.0 more vulnerable at the client level or server level:

@scottalanmiller said in Is SMB 1.0 more vulnerable at the client level or server level:

@syko24 said in Is SMB 1.0 more vulnerable at the client level or server level:

What I would like to do is Windows 10 machine (1 nic connected to network, 1 nic connected via crossover cable) to the XP machine, moves the files off the XP and onto the server share where the files can then be uploaded to the EMR.

That's certainly a "better than nothing" setup. But if it were me, I'd not put myself at risk to protect the decision makers who took on this risk. That makes no sense. Why would you assume that risk for them? They clearly don't care, why do you?

Actually, no, it provides no security, because you enable SMB1 globally for Windows 10, not per NIC. This would cause that machine to then attempt other client connections with SMB1, as well as accept SMB for the admin shares or anything else it has.

AWWW - if that's true - I take back everything I said.. I did completely mean to mention this - can you disable SMB v1 for a given NIC in Windows 10... if you can't then you haven't mitigated the issue, and you can't do it.

What about firewall rules to specific IP addresses?

It's still on the network, what happens if a device lost power? An attacker could just assign that IP address to themselves and get to the system.

@zachary715 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

Just curious @DustinB3403 how you feel about scholarships given prior to attending college, even without knowing if that individual will get a "meaningful" degree. Or how you feel about athletic scholarships that pay for school just because of a skill that rarely translates to a job down the road.

Scholarships are based on proven metrics, I don't have an issue here in most cases. I've also never received any.

Grades, athletic performance etc etc. In the public space, say community college giving an athletic scholarship I think is worthless and a waste of resources.

Academic scholarships I see as worthwhile and worth the investment.

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

Coming of age day was today in Japan.

http://mainichi.jp/english/graphs/20200113/hpe/00m/0na/001000g/1

Without knowing the tradition, aren't people "coming of age" ( I assume consent etc ) all the time in Japan, like literally every day?

Using an encrypted medium to transfer the files may work, but it would mean that the Tech (or Doctor or whoever) would have to remember a password to decrypt the data/drive.

Which they may not want to do, but likely falls into the HIPAA compliant category.

If these student loans were for a community college, I could see a benefit like this existing since community college is already funded by tax payers.

But this amount of debt, is well outside of the community price range.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Idk.

This is obvious because...

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

She is using Square Space

conflicts with

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I think it's self hosted..

so it's hosted by Square Space?

Did you even google SquareSpace? I mean I already know what it is so I didn't' bother, but still.

Nope, I sure didn't, My guess is it's a lot like GoDaddy?

FFS

The fact that they used the same certificate from phone.wazo.community (which is a login page) for their main site raises even more red flags.

An LE cert isn't difficult to implement, so that there adds to the concern.

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dustinb3403 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@storageninja said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@zachary715 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

HIs whole argument here is that it's the public sector which is offering this benefit with "our" tax dollars. I think he's fine with private businesses doing this same matter because they aren't operating with a $20trillion and growing debt with no solution in sight

The alternatives are raising salaries a bunch for government roles (unpopular), or only historically rich, or the very stupid will end up working in government as the private sector absorbs everyone with debt who's smart. All of these options suck

Why are those the only options?

Why not just make people pay their bill, period?

Well, in this case, they are. He's paying it through a signing bonus. So while SOME student debt forgiveness might be a problem because it is not given fairly, that doesn't apply here where it is a signing bonus.

$63K is way more than I ever had in student loans.

I want a $63K gift. Do all of you mind giving me a lot of money for my inability to pay my loans? (@PenguinWrangler again just using you as an example as this is a rampant issue, not hating on you)

@scottalanmiller said in Is Admitting That Someone's Suspicion of Guilt Is Correct Constitute Admission of Guilt:

@DustinB3403 said in Is Admitting That Someone's Suspicion of Guilt Is Correct Constitute Admission of Guilt:

@Dashrender said in Is Admitting That Someone's Suspicion of Guilt Is Correct Constitute Admission of Guilt:

@Obsolesce said in Is Admitting That Someone's Suspicion of Guilt Is Correct Constitute Admission of Guilt:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Nothing in that statement is evidence, and if it was it would be self incriminating, so the person isn't compelled to give up that information.

Except he told them that THEY knew what was there. In theory, that statement in a court would mean that the cops could testify as to what evidence was there because he granted as evidence that they knew what the evidence was. Therefore, they are witnesses by his admission. That he gave it up and self incriminated isn't a problem, because he did so voluntarily.

I feel that because he admitted to what was on it, he should be forced to give the password.

There are arguments exactly like that - I think there was on in the news recently. Because we KNOW what's there, he can be compelled to provide the key, etc, etc.
There is a name for it...

Do you know if schrodinger's cat is alive or dead? No you can make a reasonable guess based on the evidence outside of the box.

Without actually looking in, you are simply speculating.

Until he says that the speculation is accurate, then it's not speculation anymore (legally speaking.) That's the key. First had admission changes everything, that can't be ignored. It might not be the be all, end all, but you can't gloss over it, it's the core factor to the discussion.

But again, none of this side bar conversation has anything to do with the original topic of "You cannot be compelled to give up your password".

That includes even if the police know you committed some crime.

@wirestyle22 said in Wazo to sponsor Astricon 2019:

It's required in a lot of compliance and IMO should always exist. I'd need more of a reason to not do it than to do it.

I'd agree. Why leave it to the end user to chose to be secure or not when it's maybe 10 additional seconds of effort.

@storageninja said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@zachary715 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

Or raising taxes on everyone to allow gov't employees to be paid comparable wages to privately employed. Still sucks lol

"I'm going to run on a platform of raising taxes to pay government workers more" - Said no one ever.

Besides congress, they seem to say this ever year. . . for their own salaries.