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I brew my coffee and I have never, ever, found a coffee place to give me a cup of coffee that made me say I will have to come here and spend 5 dollars on a cup of coffee every morning.

I think I have convinced my son to skip college. Before you berate me as a bad father hear me out. He is a junior in High School. Next year he is taking the vo-tech program's programming courses for a year. If he likes it he is going to skip college and work with an organization called Launch code (www.launchcode.org) which will train him in programming land him an apprenticeship and then help him find a job, most apprenticeships turn into full time jobs. I told him he could skip all the college debt and still have in demand skills to get a good job.

This will be recorded and be part of the remote package as well correct?

I work at a larger law firm. We have about 130 attorneys, plus around 70 support staff, secretaries, etc. Most of the time the regulations we have to deal with come about from our clients. If we have a doctor as a client, and we do. Then we are entangled into HIPPA. If we have financial clients and we do, we then are tied up in their regulations. What everyone said about law firms being insecure is true. It has been a long fought fight for us to drag the firm towards better security practices. In cases we are dealing with, most contain sensitive private information, SSNs and the such so we try to be very secure with them. We have encryption on all of our machines. The data between our computers and document management system is encrypted. We have taken a lot of steps to secure our data. I am sure we have holes, I believe everyone does but we actually pay for a security audit every year. Some of our bigger clients require it. We always complain about the mom and pop law firms. They are very difficult to deal with.

No I sent them a Document on how to properly turn the laptop off, cc'd HR on it. You can't solve stupid with technology.

This is just downright awesome now.

@JaredBusch said in Add not showing on iOS:

Just power cycled my phone. They show now.

So you basically submitted a ticket without rebooting first?

@Mike-Davis It is all AD integrated. When they change their AD password and login then the Dell DDPE will update the PBA (Preboot Authentication screen) with their AD password.

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I drive a Cube. Love the head room. I want to get a license plate frame that says "My other Cube is a Borg Cube"

@fuznutz04 Oh it works. I have 60 of them deployed at an industrial hog farm. That is not a place you enjoy servicing the equipment.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

righto... more coffee in hand

I'm on like my eighth.

If I had 8 cups of coffee I just better go take up residence at the Urinal.

@scottalanmiller said in Copying Content from other sources:

@dustinb3403 said in Copying Content from other sources:

@penguinwrangler said in Copying Content from other sources:

Quoted from: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html

Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use.

Which means, if we link to said insanity for our "I can't even" topic it's fair use since we are criticizing it. Which is protected under fair use!

Oh yes, and anything that is posted for review, to dispute, to record against abuse, all fair use for sure.

The issue is, would it be worth the court fight. Mangolassi.it would have to make that decision. I have worked in Legal IT now for almost 8 years and what I have learned is that courts are for the rich people. I can't honestly afford an attorney and if one side has a lot more money than the other they will drag it out to cost the other side too much money. This happened in my divorce. My ex-mother-in-law worked for a divorce attorney. I was a prison guard making 27,000 a year. They bankrupted me. Then did it a second time a few years later when I bought a "new" car that was already four years old. The one I had replaced had over 300,000 miles on it. The thinking was that I had too much money and so they were trying to raise my child support. My child support was set at 783 a month. Made my yearly income 17604 before taxes, health insurance, etc. My take home pay for two weeks was $385.

Usually what the argument against Opensource comes down to is they don't want to have to learn new ways of doing things. It is change and people don't like that unless someone holds there hand. As a line from a favorite song says "Do you really need a genius to teach you Garage Band?"

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I am pulling my hair out. 20 new hires all started yesterday. 20 new attorneys..... young fresh out of law school. They don't look old enough to drive, and soon they will have a license to practice law. I feel really old now.

Just remember NY's S.A.F.E law.... guns can only have less than 6 bullets in the clip. . .

So bring a few loaded clips to quicker reload times. ..

I am in Missouri. I believe I can legally own a howitzer.

@wirestyle22 said in Copying Content from other sources:

@minion-queen You support us and we support you

Most definitely agree with this, I appreciate what Mangolassi.it does and for @Minion-Queen. I think what gets us worked up about it is that there is an inherent unjustness to it and it just doesn't sit well. However, like @Minion-Queen said it is not worth our time. They are not worth our time.

@dustinb3403 said in domain controller in the cloud for small office?:

@scottalanmiller said in domain controller in the cloud for small office?:

@dustinb3403 said in domain controller in the cloud for small office?:

In line with this topic does SAMBA have some kind of tie in with GPO, where you can create / edit / delete GPO's from within SAMBA?

Tie in? Samba does GPO exactly like any other AD does.

So there is a Group Policy Editor that operates on CentOS or something? (no windows involved)

When you create a Samba 4 (SAMBA 4 is the key) domain, you can use the exact same tools to administer it that you would any Windows Domain controller. The caveat is it must be a Samba 4 Domain which is at a Windows 2008 functional level. You can open up RSAT on your Windows box and create new users, open up Group Policy and start pushing out GPOs. It is not hard at all, many many how-tos on how to do this. Here is one of the first links from Google.
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/samba-4-domain-controller-installation-on-centos/

After reading this thread I have to say that Scott's argument was more compelling. Let me tell you why.
1.) I was a prison guard for 6 years. I always assume people are not telling the truth.
2.) I now work with attorneys which has taught me if something is left vague, it is not for my benefit.
3.) Also because of the attorneys, people will use doublespeak which will result in them implying one thing but actually meaning the opposite.
Which boils down to the fact that you have to always ask questions, even if they are obvious and nail people down to what they exactly mean. You are the only person that can look out for you.

@irj said in Copying Content from other sources:

This isn't right... This is the opposite of how intelligent people think. As professionals we should want to be challenged. Scientists, engineers, IT, etc all do better with challenges. If I am wrong about something point it out!

We are generally talking about making decisions with hundred of thousands or millions of dollars daily. Who the hell wouldnt want to be called out if they are doing something wrong?

So sick of this snowflake mentality where everyone's feelings matter. Fuck your feelings. There is wrong and there is right...

There is an issue of a lack of listening and there is an issue that we can't challenge someone's ideas. I have my beliefs/positions, you want to have a polite discussion I will have it with you. I will listen to you and I want you to challenge the hell out of me and you know what, you might change my mind. If someone challenges you and you are forced to logically defend your positions it will make you flush them out more. I also have the right to challenge your positions. You challenge what some people believe they don't want to defend it. They immediately smear you or say you have offended them. There is a lack of thinking in today's society. They just take what someone says and run with it without investigating it for themselves.

My friend who is a tech director for my kids school is having his budget slashed by a superintendent who doesn't think that much of technology. About 750 kids in the district (rural area) he has about 400-500 machines to manage. His budget is $20,000 for the year. So we are moving him to all open source. Moving from Novell eDirectory to a Samba 4 domain. Doing anything and everything to save him money.