Bison, an all electric truck.

https://newatlas.com/bison/49830/

Quadcopter endurance flight. Over four hours.

https://newatlas.com/quaternium-record-endurance-drone-flight/52758/

Copperhead OS

https://www.adventuresinoss.com/2017/01/18/review-copperhead-os/

Cloud computing security.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.08187

SMB

https://401trg.pw/an-introduction-to-smb-for-network-security-analysts/

Thunderbird and enigmail vulnerabilities.

https://posteo.de/en/blog/security-warning-for-thunderbird-users-and-enigmail-users-vulnerabilities-threaten-confidentiality-of-communication

Rents and large organization.

I keep seeing this over and over and I'm no business major, but if you want to see something collapse in a hurry, this will do it. Starting with the real estate market.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/24/new-york-retail-shops-amazon-rent

Chick-fil-a, it's about people.

https://www.inc.com/john-eades/chick-fil-a-opened-on-a-sunday-its-a-brilliant-lesson-for-any-business.html?cid=landermore

De-Google-ized android phone.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/New-company-called-eelo-will-give-you-de-Google-ized-Android-so-that-you-can-keep-your-privacy_id101011

Network tolerant networks.

https://faradayrf.com/delay-tolerant-networks-killer-app/

Here's an interesting bitcoin look.

https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2017/12/21/better-to-stay-away-from-bitcoin

Netspi SQL injection wiki.

https://sqlwiki.netspi.com/

It's sad that many people think stealing packages is okay.

Open source virtualization.

https://ovirt.org/

SQL server mitm attacks.

http://blog.blindspotsecurity.com/2017/12/advanced-sql-server-mitm-attacks.html?m=1

Xenserver changes coming to the free edition.

https://xenserver.org/blog/entry/xenserver-7-3-changes-to-the-free-edition.html

Ubuntu 17.10 corrupts bios in lenovo and other laptops.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147

Nikola electric utv.

https://electrek.co/2017/12/19/nikola-motor-nzt-all-electric-utv/

Tesla station wagon.

https://electrek.co/2017/12/17/tesla-model-s-station-wagon-completed/

Toyota plans to roll out electric vehicles.

http://fortune.com/2017/12/18/toyota-electric-vehicle-strategy/

Windows 10 password manager

https://betanews.com/2017/12/17/windows-10-keeper-vulnerability/

Firefox

https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-slope.html

Speaking of dual screens. Microsoft may also be going in the same direction as the ZTE Axom, but for the surface.

https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-folding-dual-screen-surface-tablet-revealed-in-patent-filing

Dual screen on a phone. Check out the zte axom m. So much for a phone in your pocket.

https://www.zteusa.com/axonm/

Stealing pet dogs for meat in Vietnam | Unreported World

Man in the middle attack lessons.

https://www.fox-it.com/en/insights/blogs/blog/fox-hit-cyber-attack/

Starbuck's wifi crypto mining.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42338754

Thor ET-One Electrick truck

http://www.thortrucks.com/et-one/

TP-Link router, squattering your internet.

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/tplink-aggressive-ntp

Nasa and prototype kilopower reactor. To the moon and beyond...maybe some day but not in our lifetime I don't think.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ON-NASA-to-test-prototype-Kilopower-reactor-1711174.html

Avast goes open source with their machine decompiler.

https://blog.avast.com/avast-open-sources-its-machine-code-decompiler

Car manufacturing plant.

https://dailykanban.com/2017/12/go-production-hell-went-production-heaven/

Windows 10 adding openssh client.

https://www.servethehome.com/say-farewell-putty-microsoft-adds-openssh-client-windows-10/

Netgear 8 bay nas.

https://www.netgear.com/business/products/storage/readynas/RN428.aspx

Mechwarrior 5 coming in 2018.

http://twinfinite.net/2017/12/mechwarrior-5-mercenaries-announced-and-is-set-to-release-next-year/

The hidden network monsters.

#019: Small Office / Big Cabling Rehab!!

Intel management engine firmware update.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software.html

"HP-Keylogger"

https://zwclose.github.io/HP-keylogger/

Buying an echo or something similar, maybe you should read this.

https://gizmodo.com/dont-buy-anyone-an-echo-1820981732

Qualcomms new server processor.

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2017/11/08/qualcomm-centriq-2400-worlds-first-10nm-server-processor

Amazon key experience.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/07/amazon-wants-a-key-to-your-house-i-did-it-i-regretted-it/

3-D printed objects connect to wifi.

http://www.washington.edu/news/2017/12/05/in-first-3-d-printed-objects-connect-to-wifi-without-electronics/

And so it begins, the problems with crypto currency. Steam no longer supports bitcoin.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1464096684955433613

Feds shut down cryptocurrency.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/feds-shut-down-allegedly-fraudulent-cryptocurrency-offering/

This is really good news for 3D printing.

http://news.mit.edu/2017/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faster-commercial-counterparts-1129D P

Farmed Norwegian Salmon World’s Most Toxic Food

If you use an apple device keep this in mind.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208332

Paypal

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/12/01/paypal-says-personal-data-may-be-compromised-for-1-6-million-tio-users.html

Here's proof that one vote counts.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/362934-philadelphia-write-in-candidate-shocked-by-surprise-victory

Still can't save though.

Even if I don't change the name the file won't save...yup, I just verified this and even a blank document won't save. Something weird is going on with libreoffice because I still can't install open office either. Is it the Microsoft updates or office suite?
Fortunately there are many other options that you can use if these two programs are not working. This is the case here.

OpenOffice won't install either.

This is interesting, I can't even install open office either...I managed to get libreoffice installed again. Check the answer in the previous post.

Libreoffice spitting errors that won't allow install no matter what version it is.

This of course always happens when I need to use it.

UPDATE: Even after manually deleting any libreoffie reference, the problem persisted. I was able to finally get it installed by unchecking the create a link box at the beginning. After that, the install goes through without a problem. This should get you back up if you are having the same problem. I managed to do this, so I didn't bother trying to install openoffice again. I just came back from that to this.

Don't defrag your ssd. Microsoft will turn this back on again when they update your system.

I just started having a problem saving a document in LibreOffice. It's just kicking off some errors that it can't save the document. I thought I check the ssd since there were some Microsoft updates lately. Low and behold my settings have changed back to on. The manufacturer of my ssd recommends disabling defragmenting the drive. I have now changed this back to off and I may have to re-install the program again to fix that. Check your ssd drive manufacturer to see what they recommend since all of them are different. If they keep changing everything back on systems, this will be a nightmare to say the least if you have many computers with ssd's after every major update.

Firefox just downloaded an update, let's hope this fixed that memory hogging problem I mentioned earlier.

Well, that didn't fix the problem. Firefox just froze again and sure enough it's the same thing.

James bond has nothing on these guys. LOL

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/must_see/42167619/daredevils-jump-from-a-mountain-into-a-plane

Another bad week for apple.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42166438

Digital privacy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/us/politics/supreme-court-fourth-amendment-privacy-cellphones.html

Alex Petralia, learning linux bash.

https://alexpetralia.com/posts/2017/6/26/learning-linux-bash-to-get-things-done

Mark Litwintschik a minimalist guide to sqlite.

http://tech.marksblogg.com/sqlite3-tutorial-and-guide.html

Cloudfare and the DDos landscape.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-new-ddos-landscape/

Firefox is really freezing now. It looks like just firefox is doing this, Chrome and Edge seem fine. Again, only three tabs open.

The new firefox loves to hug your memory. I had three tabs open here and this just keeps going up. The system is up to date.

I don't even know what to say about this one. It just leaves you speechless.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/16/news/companies/toys-r-us-executive-bonuses/index.html

Do you still think Bitcoin is safe?

https://btc-hijack.ethz.ch/

In case you haven't heard about the uber breach that took place in 2016, here you go.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/uber-told-softbank-about-big-breach-before-informing-public/ar-BBFBakA?OCID=ansmsnnews11

This is what matters.

Today as I read the news about people fighting at a mall and reading about other things in the news, I came across this article. Many people seem to have forgotten what's really important.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ambulance-crew-takes-dying-woman-for-beach-goodbye/ar-BBFyVdJ

This is insteresting.

https://www.icij.org/blog/2017/946/universities-colleges-offshore-leaks-database/

When people like Elon make some bold claims about their products.

Now don't get me wrong, he has done a lot, but sometimes even people like him say dumb things too. None of us are perfect, I'm sure we have all said something dumb at one point or another in out life time. Here's an actual retired truck driver talking from his experience. I was also thinking about something similar that he talked about in the presentation which is about the brakes lasting for the life of the truck. I say that was just another dumb thing he said, but I'm only saying this because I watched my father who is now a retired mechanic changed more brake pads on cars than I care to remember. I know that's pure hot air on his part. This is also what the truck driver talked about, stopping a loaded trailer. I guess it just amazes me when I see all these people go wow, wee, and get all excited about something new that's not even out yet, but many others have experience in those areas with or without the technology. Not to mention that jack knifing, tell that to black ice and a slippery slope on a very steep hill.
https://www.autoblog.com/2017/11/19/tesla-semi-trucker-questions/

Wow.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/11/18/a-dying-vet-needed-cpr-hidden-video-shows-his-nurse-laughing-instead/?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.2b150d4cc3a3

I could swear that the last xbox was just released, but here's the new one on the way.

http://www.avsforum.com/xbox-one-x-first-look/

Tesla also announces a new electric truck which now comes on the heels of the nikola electric truck.

https://www.tesla.com/semi/

https://nikolamotor.com/

Tesla announces the new roadster.

https://www.tesla.com/roadster/

The N.S.A. and its spilled beans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html

TSA plans for face recognition.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/tsa-plans-use-face-recognition-track-americans-through-airports

Inside a low budget bug. Scary stuff.

https://ha.cking.ch/s8_data_line_locator/

Just a reminder to check your ssh servers.

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/SSH+Server+Time+to+Live+Less+than+a+cup+of+coffee/23020/

I took a peek at my logs and sure enough...

This is a paper on USB 3 frequency interference.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/universal-serial-bus/usb3-frequency-interference-paper.html

Here's a good simple to read article on frequency basics.

https://payatu.com/getting-started-with-radio-waves-hacking/

Indian man builds an airplane on his rooftop.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41813389

I guess this is also a good time to check on this as well. The NTP denial of service daemon susceptibility.

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#DRDoS_Amplification_Attack_using

It's never fun when the time change surprises you. Don't forget to change your clocks this weekend.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/usa

Stents

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/health/heart-disease-stents.html?_r=0

If you use a vpn, you need to be careful about what vpn you download.

https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/08/29/do-you-need-a-vpn

Is your dentist ripping you off? Hidden camera investigation (CBC Market...

This video is from 2015, but it still applies today. I know this one will hit home with many people. I had my bad experience when I was a kid from a dentist that did more work than I really needed so now I take anything a dentist says with a grain of salt. I'm not saying all dentists are the same, but a lot of what I have seen here in the USA, even though the video is from Canada this is pretty much what you see in many places. It's sad when your health becomes just dollar signs to some dentists. But like any profession, there are good ones and bad ones.

High-tech car theft: How to hack a car (CBC Marketplace)

I wanted to to show you the new way thieves are getting into cars. I remember watching the news when those guys were caught on camera in long beach, California. Most alarm companies still haven't kept up with their alarm technologies, but here's the proof that they still need to get with the program. Most people don't even think about their cars when they leave them. The holidays are around the corner which is why I wanted to remind everyone about this.  Keep in mind that any car can be stolen, it doesn't have to be a new high tech car, but taking any precautions that you can won't hurt anything. Also, don't leave anything of value just sitting in a car if possible. We have had things stolen from our cars, and even had cars stolen. So I know what that's like and it's why I got interested in security in general.

8 NEW Drone Inventions That Will Blow Your Mind

Myspace and Ad fraud scheme. This is a good example on how ads have gotten worst over time.

This will give you an idea of how hidden some of these things really are.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/remember-tom?utm_term=.edKj8pP5d#.li1X6zDoq

Intel optane ssd 900p

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11953/the-intel-optane-ssd-900p-review

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/search.html?toplevelcategory=none&query=Intel%20optane%20900p&keyword=Intel%20optane%20900p

Android studio 3.0 released.

https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/index.html

An interesting article about vitamin B6 and B12 supplements and cancer.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/b12-energy/537654?single_page=true

It looks like samsung will be taking its turn serving up a desktop from their phones.

https://www.technewsworld.com/story/Samsung-to-Give-Linux-Desktop-Experience-to-Smartphone-Users-84896.html

Google gives gmail some add-ons.

https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/do-more-your-inbox-gmail-add-ons/

It's all connected.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/20/san-jose-san-francisco-oakland-job-losses-hammer-bay-area-employers-slash-thousands-of-jobs/

11TB U.2 NVMe interface SSD

https://www.micron.com/products/solid-state-storage/bus-interfaces/nvme-ssds#/

Tesla changing car insurance.

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-liberty-mutual-create-customize-insurance-package-2017-10?r=US&IR=T

No matter what system you use, you can never be too careful with your downloads.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj789w/elmedia-player-malware-hack-mac-trojan

Social engineer, and not who you would expect.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv34zb/how-i-socially-engineer-myself-into-high-security-facilities

This new california law bans employers from asking about your previous salary.

http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/New-law-bans-California-employers-from-asking-12274431.php

109-Year-Old Veteran and His Secrets to Life Will Make You Smile | Short...

Here's something to think about if you like to post your life away on social media.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/17/uk-spies-using-social-media-data-for-mass-surveillance/

An interesting peek into google. I guess don't drink the kool-aid is good advice for many places that make all sorts of promises.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/10/17/my-google-job-was-tedious-and-pointless/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_1_na&utm_term=.fc2705c5456a

Google calendar refreshed.

https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/time-refresh-introducing-new-look-and-features-google-calendar-web/

Microsoft introduces surface book 2.

https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2017/10/17/introducing-surface-book-2-the-most-powerful-surface-book-ever/

Internet krack, as in cryptography. These names just get weirder by the day.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/10/16/falling-through-the-kracks/

Cool your pie. Sorry, I just couldn't help it. :)

https://microsoft.github.io/ELL/tutorials/Active-cooling-your-Raspberry-Pi-3/

Here's a very good example of why you shouldn't believe or rely on many reviews online. Keep in mind that this article is just about mattresses.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars

Well, this is one way to make 10 million dollars.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/14/have-dirt-that-could-impeach-trump-larry-flynt-will-pay-you-10-million/?utm_term=.bcbd74b16a22

SSD mirrors

Well, at least now you know which mirror ssd may go first. This is very interesting either way.

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/UnbalancedSSDMirrorReads

Ubuntu Mate 17.10 Beta Install

I mentioned ads in websites a couple of post below, now you have to worry about crypto miners as well.

https://blog.adguard.com/en/crypto-mining-fever/

Houston reservoirs flooding.

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/harvey-reservoirs

Airbus scandal.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/airbus-corruption-scandal-threatens-ceo-tom-enders-a-1171533.html

Equifax, the site that keeps on giving. My suggestion is to stay away from their site for a while and just keep a close eye on your stuff yourself.

This is also the reason you don't allow ads or any other web services to run on your website that have nothing to do with the site. I have noticed these in some company websites.. Why does a company need ads on their site is beyond me if they have nothing to do with that.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/equifax-website-hacked-again-this-time-to-redirect-to-fake-flash-update/

Cyber attack steals plans from another defense contractor.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-defence-cyber/joint-strike-fighter-plans-stolen-in-australia-cyber-attack-idUSKBN1CH00F

Labor department to ramp up fraud probes on visa programs.

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-labor-visa/u-s-labor-dept-to-ramp-up-fraud-probes-of-foreign-visa-programs-idUSL1N1J30OU

Linux kernel announced last month that it's moving to and even longer LTS release. This should make things more stable for longer, hopefully. Not to mention more security updates.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/android-users-rejoice-linux-kernel-lts-releases-are-now-good-for-6-years/

New fuel cell platform being developed by GM with Honda. This thing looks interesting.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/10/from-disasters-to-freight-this-driverless-fuel-cell-platform-has-it-covered/

Deutsche Bank makes its code public.

https://www.db.com/newsroom_news/2017/deutsche-bank-makes-its-computer-code-publicly-available-for-the-first-time-en-11674.htm

The apple iphone 8 has some battery problems.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/6/16437790/iphone-8-swollen-battery-issue-apple-investigating

Comedian ralphie may passed away yesterday at only 45.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/ralphie-may-last-comic-standing-comedian-dead-at-45-w507670

IOS 11 not completely turning off your BT and Wifi.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/ios-11s-misleading-ish-setting-bluetooth-and-wi-fi-bad-user-security

Xen, no local iso access.

I just ran into this. I downloaded some isos and since they're on my local machine I thought I install them. Interestingly, I can't access the isos from my local machine. This is the first time I try doing an install from the local machine and sure enough, you can't do it, at least not from here. So I either have to burn a disk or usb stick if it works and try that or boot up the nas and move the files there which I didn't want to do since it's late at night. Very interesting but annoying since I'm doing it on my own server. I guess it's time to go to bed for now since I'm tired anyway. Always listen to your tired self when things don't work.

If you are a gambler, here's a reason not to gamble, well at least in certain casinos because they just won't pay you even if you win according to the article.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/1-4-million-jackpot-is-voided-because-bingo-machine-malfunctioned/

Las Vegas shooter leaves at least 50+ dead and many more injured.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-shooting-stephen-paddock-mandalay-bay-live-updates/

Former bank teller steals the customers money.

Here's also a very good example of how scammers try to send you to another page using a page from an actual company or organization. The link below is fine, but if you try to go to justtice.gov, you will get a different warning about that site. Just adding an extra t in justice is enough to send you elsewhere. I mistype this at first and actually found this out by accident. My router just screamed at me with a big NO letting me know that the website contains malware, you don't want to go to this site called justtice.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/former-bank-teller-pleads-guilty-federal-charge-stealing-more-185000-homeless-customer

A mini C64 is coming in 2018.

At least that's what the site states, but lets see what happens or if it's not just going to be another NES classic edition debacle since there is not much information. Will it just be another rpi or an actual tiny motherboard, we'll just have to wait, but I have learned not to hold my breath for these things anymore. Specially when companies announce things so far ahead with nothing else.
https://thec64.com/

The american red cross asks for help from ham radio users, and they got it.

Although ham radios seem like very old technology, this is apparently the one technology that won't die, specially during times of emergencies. I should really start learning to use one of these radios, they are affordable and looks like fun too. You can check for more information at the link below if you are also interested.

http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-s-force-of-fifty-answers-the-red-cross-call-in-puerto-rico

Hugh Hefner passed away yesterday, he was 91.

http://fortune.com/2017/09/28/playboy-hugh-hefner-dies/

Sonic drive-in burger chain data breach.

http://fortune.com/2017/09/27/sonic-stock-credit-card-data-breach/?iid=sr-link2

When the network decides to take a break, things just stop working. In this case, the airline check-in software used at airports around the world.

This is a good example that always having a way to go back to doing something the old way is still needed. Going back to pen and paper is not something you'll want once you're computerized, but being able to do it even for a few moments at a time will allow things to continue moving along. It may be almost impossible in some areas, but not others. Staff having radios to communicate would be one aspect. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/28/worldwide-airport-chaos-check-in-computer-systems-crash/

Naps2 (Not another PDF scanner 2)

I need to scan some papers and I got tired of using the brother software that came with my scanner. It's an older all in one but still. I need something that will let me do this a little bit faster. You can take a look at the video below so see what I mean.

When you think you have deleted all those old posts on tinder, or anywhere, think again.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/26/tinder-personal-data-dating-app-messages-hacked-sold

Deloitte is hit by cyber attack. This goes to show you that no one is immune.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/25/deloitte-hit-by-cyber-attack-revealing-clients-secret-emails

NES Classic Clone With 30 Games And HDMI Looks So Real!!!

Here's something that I think many of us can use.

https://qotoqot.com/blog/improving-focus/

3D printing aluminum alloys

https://futurism.com/engineers-have-found-a-way-to-3d-print-super-strong-aluminum/

Here's a nice post for those that like to post everything on their social media accounts.

https://www.michalspacek.com/post-a-boarding-pass-on-facebook-get-your-account-stolen

Mobile gps will be getting more accurate with newer chips.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/design/superaccurate-gps-chips-coming-to-smartphones-in-2018

Keeping the advertisers out.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/apple-does-right-users-wrong-advertisers

Well this is not something you want to hear about Intel chips.

https://www.blackhat.com/eu-17/briefings/schedule/#how-to-hack-a-turned-off-computer-or-running-unsigned-code-in-intel-management-engine-8668

Here's a good example of why you cant trust many reviews nowadays and how many sites control what you see.

https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-09-17-booking-com-manipulation

Automotive grade linux to debut in 2018 Toyota Camry.

https://www.automotivelinux.org/announcements/2017/05/30/automotive-grade-linux-platform-debuts-on-the-2018-toyota-camry

RAPID TCT 2017 | Desktop Metal Announces Metal 3D Printing Systems

CCleaner and malware. Targeting official programs with malware.

http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/avast-distributes-malware.html?m=1

This is what can happen when your identity is stolen. Lets hope these companies will stop using social security numbers for everything.

Let's also keep in mind that too much security can also be a bad thing, to a point in some instances. A perfect example is I had to return an item to Costco. I used my dad's Costco card to make the purchase with my own credit card back then. The girl at the counter told me she couldn't process that because my dad, the card holder had to be there. So now I had to go back home, ask him to go with me, drive around the parking lot looking for a parking spot for the second time, then I had to make a line again and wait for my turn. Well now you can see how this would upset any law abiding citizen. I had the original receipt that she could have just looked at. I cancelled my Costco card a few years ago and I'm fine without one.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-13/my-three-years-in-identity-theft-hell

Obesity in Brazil and all over the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil-obesity-nestle.html

Western digital ships 12 TB Gold hard drives that can be purchased by everyone.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11842/western-digital-ships-12-tb-wd-gold-hdd-8-platters-helium

Attacks on the anonymity of the tor network.

https://netzpolitik.org/2017/secret-documents-reveal-german-foreign-spy-agency-bnd-attacks-the-anonymity-network-tor-and-advises-not-to-use-it/

More google play and malware.

http://fortune.com/2017/09/14/google-play-android-malware/?utm_campaign=fortunemagazine&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE

The hole for Equifax is just getting deeper.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41257576

The eff sues dhs over warrantless phone searches.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-aclu-media-conference-call-today-announce-lawsuit-over-warrantless-phone-and

DHS directive on Kaspersky security products.

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/09/13/dhs-statement-issuance-binding-operational-directive-17-01

Here's the new Apple lineup in case you missed it.

I don't know about you, but I still miss the simplicity of my old flip phones. Yes the new stuff is cool, but since I spend a lot of my time with technology, I still like simple things I guess. But that's just me.Phones have just gotten too darn big.
https://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2017/

Dlink 850L routers vulnerability

https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2017-09-08-dlink-850l-mydlink-cloud-0days-vulnerabilities.html

High rents seem to be a problem worldwide and it's just getting worst.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/08/berlin-rent-control-neighborhood-protection/536325/

"How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer"

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dar.12596/full

Where will amazon build? This will be interesting to see.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-07/few-cities-could-accommodate-amazon-s-new-headquarters

An A.T.F article. Another interesting read.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/us/atf-tobacco-cigarettes.html?referer=

If you didn't know what equifax was, we will be getting to know quite a lot about them as the days go by.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/why-the-equifax-breach-is-very-possibly-the-worst-leak-of-personal-info-ever/

Security flaws found in UK tax site

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41188008

Equifax

https://qz.com/1073221/the-hackers-who-broke-into-equifax-exploited-a-nine-year-old-security-flaw/

Scotty brings back the headphone jack to the iphone.

It's always interesting to see his work. Although I thought it was more interesting that I just got my BT headphones to watch TV. I later found some other smaller BT headphones at the local 99 cent store that costs a couple of dollars and they actually work pretty well. Although you don't really need the jack from what I'm seeing in terms of what is now available, just the whole process of what he does is very interesting in itself. Then again why change something that really works well.

https://strangeparts.com/bringing-back-the-iphone-headphone-jack-in-china/

Dual screen car stereo anyone?

http://soundstream.com/product/vrn-dd7hb/

Equifax becomes the next cyber target for consumers information.

https://investor.equifax.com/news-and-events/news/2017/09-07-2017-213000628

Hackers in the power grid, that's never a good thing.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/hackers-lie-in-wait-after-penetrating-us-and-europe-power-grid-networks/

Getting burned out from social networks or just want to keep you life private, here is a good example.

http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2017/09/06/deleting-my-tweets/

Remember that Lenovo adware incident?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/ftc-slaps-lenovo-on-the-wrist-for-selling-computers-with-secret-adware/

Have you ever thought about your bank account being closed or frozen or just dissapear one day? I have and this is a real life perfect example of that.

https://medium.com/@photonstorm/hsbc-is-killing-my-business-piece-by-piece-d7f5547f3929

San Diego declares health emergency.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/03/548299633/san-diego-declares-health-emergency-amid-hepatitis-a-outbreak

More fake accounts keeps growing at wells fargo.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/31/investing/wells-fargo-fake-accounts/index.html

Modem vulnerabilities

https://www.nomotion.net/blog/sharknatto/

Will this come back and byte intel in the rear with all the new amd cpus coming out?

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/09/01/huge-premium-intel-charging-skylake-xeons/

This is not the first airbnb horror story I've read so far.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/01/airbnb-nightmare-homeowners-fined-after-renters-illegal-listings.html

Nurse gets arrested for doing her job.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/01/this-is-crazy-sobs-utah-hospital-nurse-as-cop-roughs-her-up-arrests-her-for-doing-her-job/?utm_term=.a82387ad7e2e

This is definitely going to speed things up in this area.

https://qz.com/1064679/a-new-t-shirt-sewing-robot-can-make-as-many-shirts-per-hour-as-17-factory-workers/

Patent troll pays up.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/kaspersky-lab-turns-the-tables-forces-patent-troll-to-pay-cash-to-end-case/

Well that's just cool.

Well, there you go. Computers are good tools, to a point.

http://peoriapublicradio.org/post/do-laptops-help-learning-look-only-statewide-school-laptop-program#stream/0

Politics uncertainty

https://www.axios.com/trumps-political-uncertainty-risks-an-american-brain-drain-2474420200.html

Heads up on that automated car wash.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjxe33/car-wash-hack-can-smash-vehicle-trap-passengers-douse-them-with-water

M. C. Escher models 3D printed

http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/personal/EscherForReal/

Here's an article you will find very interesting if you use google.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4295350/did-you-know-google-has-been-secretly-recording-you-heres-how-to-find-the-creepy-audio-files-that-are-monitoring-your-conversations-every-day/

A math teacher who loved what he did, for a very long time.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/08/19/541163173/paul-miller-loved-teaching-math-so-much-that-he-did-it-for-nearly-80-years

Android 8 Oreo is here, I just wish we could update all our old phones.

https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/

Intel new cpus are launched.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11738/intel-launches-8th-generation-cpus-starting-with-kaby-lake-refresh-for-15w-mobile

Interesting article on counterfeit chip

http://www.righto.com/2017/08/inside-fake-ram-chip-i-found-something.html?m=1

Backdoor found in network management products

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/powerful-backdoor-found-in-software-used-by-100-banks-and-energy-cos/

Best food run ever!

This is just too ridiculous when it comes to adapters. I don't know about you but I prefer the built-in ports myself.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-dongles-2017-8?international=true&r=UK&IR=T/#9-mini-displayport-to-dual-link-dvi-adapter-99-9

Google play malware

http://fortune.com/2017/08/13/malware-google-play-android-surveillance/

Beware of this type of scam.

https://petapixel.com/2017/08/11/fell-victim-1500-used-camera-lens-scam-amazon/

Intel 8th generation cpus will be introduced August 21

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/media-alert-introducing-new-8th-gen-intel-core-processor-family/

This is scary

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/07/tiny-meat-loving-marine-creatures-eat-teenagers-legs-at-melbourne-beach?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+AUS+v1+-+AUS+morning+mail+callout&utm_term=238271&subid=23615832&CMP=ema_632

Cybersecurity

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/345337-wannacry-hero-chills-security-community

The brothers behind stripe's online payment systems

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-brothers-turned-seven-lines-of-code-into-a-9-2-billion-startup

Desktop metal 3D printing coming to a desk near you.

http://newatlas.com/desktop-metal-3d-printing/50654/

Mac malware

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmv79w/mysterious-mac-malware-has-infected-hundreds-of-victims-for-years

Here's another 4 bay case I just ran into.

This is just a four bay case. For a bit more you can get the eight bay norco I built mine from, if you don't mind the noise. This is not my video but it's a good video about this case. This one definitely looks nicer than the four bay norco because of the removable motherboard tray and more room for the cpu. It's been out for a while, but I hadn't seen it myself. And if you don't even want to built anything, you can also check out the hp microserver Gen10 I posted before.

https://www.in-win.com/en/ipc-server/ms04
Here's a build with pictures of this case.
http://proclockers.com/reviews/computer-cases/in-win-iw-ms04-mini-server-case-review?nopaging=1

When you are literally on top.

Introducing the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Small Scale Server

I really like the tray-less bays in this one. If you're looking for a small 4 bay nas/server, take a look at this new server from HP.

Seagate unveils 10TB Drives

http://www.seagate.com/about-seagate/news/seagate-unveils-the-industry-broadest-10tb-portfolio-master-pr/

Wow, you hear these stories but reading and watching a video is just unreal.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/19/15999806/baltimore-police-body-camera

Desktop Metal 3D Printing

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/18/desktop-metal-gets-115-million-in-funding-to-deliver-metal-3d-printing-for-manufacturing/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

PCI Express

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/07/14/system-bottleneck-shifts-pci-express/

New ryzen cpu scam

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/252674-fake-ryzen-chips-now-popping-amazon-ebay

US cyber command split

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/u-s-create-independent-u-s-cyber-command-split-off-nsa/

AMD coming out with more cpus.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11636/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1920x-1950x-16-cores-4g-turbo-799-999-usd

Its true, a laptop can be more distracting in a classroom than a good old notebook.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/students-are-better-off-without-a-laptop-in-the-classroom/

China wants to ban vpns.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-10/china-is-said-to-order-carriers-to-bar-personal-vpns-by-february

Windows bugs?

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/

If you thought cameras are small, they are going to get smaller.

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21724796-future-photography-flat-cameras-are-about-get-lot-smaller

Nothing new here but you should know this if you use facebook.

https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/

Onedrive stops working on non ntfs drives apparently

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/onedrive-has-stopped-working-on-non-ntfs-drives/

FreeDos is still going strong today.

https://opensource.com/article/17/6/freedos-still-cool-today

New windows 10 updates coming.

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/07/03/windows-10-protect-ransomware/

Processor bug, apparently so.

http://gallium.inria.fr/blog/intel-skylake-bug/

"AMD launches ryzen pro cpus."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11591/amd-launches-ryzen-pro-cpus-enhanced-security-longer-warranty-better-quality

More ransomeware

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/06/27/ransomware-spreads-rapidly-hitting-power-companies-banks-airlines-metro/#22a6d76c7abd

My 3D printed USB to SATA case

I have been working on making a simple usb hard drive case since I have a usb to sata cable and hard drive. I figured I could make a simple case that I could use with this if I really needed something portable without having to mess with screws. Here's what I came up with.

 

Cover

Case

I put a lot of holes to make sure the drive is kept cool. Even small drives tend to warm up a bit if the enclosure doesn't have any cooling which is never good for any hard drive.

 After about 5 or 6 revisions here's the final case. Top. I wanted to be able to just snap the top on and off. It works but it's still a bit hard to remove which I guess it's good because it won't just come off, I really have to pull hard on it to get that off. So it works as intended.

 Here's the bottom where I added more cooling and a hole so I can push the drive out since it sits just snug. I also added some screw holes for a more permanent install if I want.

 Here's the cable and drive installed.

 Here's the inside of the bottom half.

 

And here are all my test prints before I finally got it working.

Testing a sata cable

I needed to do this for a cable on my computer since I started having some crashes. I have a new ssd and it was working fine so I knew that was not my problem. Needless to say, everything seems to be working now. Anyway, this is what I came up with in order to test sata cables. I just ordered some of these adapters from ebay and they did the trick. An actual cable tester would be nice but I haven't seen much for something like this. My small network tester has usb ports so I can test those. Now that I think of this, there aren't many cable testers out there so your multi meter is your best bet for now.

Cyber attack

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/technology/ransomware-attack-nsa-cyberweapons.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&referer=

Here's a perfect example of spyware use and why you should not click on attached links even if they look fine. This is similar to the text messages I kept getting earlier and ignoring this past week.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/world/americas/mexico-spyware-anticrime.html

I was just smiling along with him the whole time.

Devian 9 stretch released

https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617

The health problems associated with chip production

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-15/american-chipmakers-had-a-toxic-problem-so-they-outsourced-it

Cell phone text spam

I have been getting a lot of text spam lately and thought I look into my options. Spam is just one of those very annoying things no matter how you get it.
There are two things you can do...
1: block whatever number is sending the texts. I have been doing this a lot as I was also getting random calls in the middle of the night. So this works but you just have to keep adding the number there.

2. I got from the article below which is a bit old but still works just the same now in 2017. You can forward the text to 7726 which is for spam. This let's the carrier know that that is a spam text. I just sent the spam text I got and this still seems to work.
Are these perfect, no but at least they won't annoy you as much. Spam is bad enough, but now getting that on your phone is just beyond bad.

http://www.abc15.com/news/let-joe-know/how-to-stop-scam-text-messages-from-getting-to-your-cell-phone

Wells Fargo in more hot water

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/business/wells-fargo-loan-mortgage.html?referer=

Grid malware

https://www.wired.com/story/crash-override-malware/

Immigration may tighten in the U.S.A but opportunities open up for tech workers in Canada.

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/09/532220824/canadas-tech-firms-capitalize-on-immigration-anxiety-in-the-age-of-trump

Microsoft's new game console.

https://www.axios.com/microsoft-debuts-new-499-game-console-the-xbox-one-x-due-nov-7-2440015389.html?utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=organic

Even the app store is not immune to scam apps.

https://medium.com/@johnnylin/how-to-make-80-000-per-month-on-the-apple-app-store-bdb943862e88

Malware and Intel cpus

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-uses-obscure-intel-cpu-feature-to-steal-data-and-avoid-firewalls/

I don't know what's worst, ads or the fact that fb tracks everything.

In case you didn't know. If you ever want to delete a photo or video from Facebook, they won't allow you to delete more than one at a time. So if you want to delete anything guess what, you can't​ delete your own stuff at once, even if they are just a bunch of old food pictures unless it's an album. It's nice to have something to keep in touch with some people you wouldn't normally see or who are very far away. Everything getting tracked nowadays, no so nice.
https://tenplay.com.au/news/national/june-2017/facebook-wants-to-spy-on-you-through-webcam-and-smartphones

Uninstalling Groove Music in windows 10

I wanted to listen to some music and kept hitting the groove music icon which requires and account and well, it's not what I want to use. I just wanted the simple windows player. Unfortunately there was no uninstall icon for it anywhere. After creating a restore point, I deleted all the registry keys for it but it was still a no go. I didn't want to spend another day trying to get rid of this thing which I don't use. I finally found this link to uninstalling it through the windows shell. The only thing I had to do is use the version on my computer since it's been some time since this was posted. My version was different so make sure you scroll up on your list to make sure that you copy and take out the version on your computer. It may just not work if you type a different number. In short, this got rid of it and it's now gone from my start as well. There's nothing more annoying that not being able to get rid of a program that you don't use. Specially with everything tracking what you use or don't use nowadays.
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/uninstall-groove-music-windows-10

Category 8 cabling is here...

I was on the computer earlier when I got this nice message from windos 10.

I wasn't doing anything special but windows 10 seems to always be doing things in the background.

Smb and cyberattacks

http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2017/04/5-reasons-why-small-businesses-are-targeted-cyberattacks?cm_ven=SocialMedia&cm_cat=Facebook&cm_pla=MKT18831adu0000P0000&cm_ite=cdwcorp&psoc=1

Some good news in the quadcopters and hobby land.

I think this is great. I liked this hobby because it got me out of the house if only for brief moments. I think this hobby has been taken way off base. Granted there are those that will do stupid things no matter what but for me, this was just a hobby until all the nonsense started with these laws. You can't enjoy yourself without someone making a big deal out of say flying in circles in front of you for example. Well at least when I used to go out for a bit. Heck even flying my small helicopter used to be fun but I stopped using them because who knows what someone may say or do. I used the park when no one was around but one day the ranger woman said I could not ride my bike at the trail because it was for horses. I only went out for a bit and since I was out of shape there's no way in hell I could run over anyone. Not to mention I was there only briefly each time. It was alright for the horses to crap all over the trail which I also walked through. I guess a lot of things are so backwards in the city that you just don't bother going anywhere. Even the baseball field was locked because it was only for when teams played and no one else could use it.
https://www.recode.net/2017/5/19/15663436/us-drone-registration-rules-faa

Geek squad reports Doc to the FBI

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/18/geek_squad_computer_searches/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Another windows OS, but not exactly windows...

I actually like it.
https://www.reactos.org/

More ransomware bad news

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/15/wannacrypt_variant/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Nikola unveils their truck

UK hospitals hit by ransomeware

https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/05/nhs-ransomware-cyber-attack/

Hp driver logs keystrokes

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/hp-laptops-covert-log-every-keystroke-researchers-warn/

Another ex-employee doing bad things on the companies systems

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/11/dude_whacked_with_us300k_bill_for_faking_his_hours_hacking_bosss_website/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

One board with many sensors in a very small package

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607837/this-mega-sensor-makes-the-whole-room-smart/

Microsoft edge pdf problem

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/249060-psa-microsoft-edge-prints-pdfs-incorrectly-substitutes-numbers

More security patches...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/09/may_2017_ms_patch_tuesday/?mt=1494388762637

Yikes!

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/mac-users-installing-popular-dvd-ripper-get-nasty-backdoor-instead/

Multiple displays in one monitor, nice.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/248974-phillips-lg-debut-new-4k-40-inch-monitors-flexible-support-4-simultaneous-displays

Another windows vulnerability

https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/05/windows-defender-nscript-remote-vulnerability/

12 TB hard drives now shipping

http://www.hgst.com/products/hard-drives/ultrastar-he12

On another note, here's another flying car.

http://www.euronews.com/2017/04/25/flying-cars-now-available-for-pre-order

Another IT guy goes bad.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/25/expedia_it_admin_insider_trading/

Guy builds his own iphone.

http://www.pcmag.com/news/353041/geek-builds-own-iphone-using-chinese-market-parts

NSA malware in the wild.

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/14/leaked-nsa-malware-threatens-windows-users-around-the-world/

If this is true, Nintendo just went full retard. Sorry but its true, specially when people wanted one and it just went poof. Nowhere to be found.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/nintendo-hates-money-discontinues-the-nes-classic/

Ubuntu 17-04 is out.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/13/ubuntu-17-04-supports-widest-range-of-container-capabilities/

I finally got a chance to print my istar enclosure holder.

I finally got this installed and can now use it. Check out the istar page for more pictures of the print. It took two days but I can finally use it.

 

So far, it is working and no trays needed. Aside from a small adapter for the smaller 7 mm drive that I need to make, it's working just fine.

Inmates build computers and connect to internal network.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/12/prisoners_built_computer_connected_to_states_network/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Windows creators update.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/04/11/whats-new-in-the-windows-10-creators-update/?ocid=WinAnnouce_soc_omc_win_fb_Link_lrn_RS2Delighters&utm_source=lm.facebook.com&utm_medium=referral#bg5odhiFiqv1P8Mz.97

New word documents exploits.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/booby-trapped-word-documents-in-the-wild-exploit-critical-microsoft-0day/

Samsung Tizen

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/samsung-tizen-operating-system-bugs-vulnerabilities

Ubuntu is returning to Gnome for 18.04 LTS. Yes!

Well, this sounds like good news to me. Going back to a simple but working environment. Windows has been going away from this lately. Too many things running in the background that you have to turn off for example.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/

Brazilian bank DNS compromised and credentials swiped

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/05/hackers_take_over_banks_dns_system/

The never ending bugs...

http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/03/27/apples-ios-103-patches-mobile-safari-bug-used-in-ransomware-campaign

Change of technology

http://www.euronews.com/2017/03/28/working-in-the-future-how-humans-need-to-adapt

Sound waves, more than meets the eye apparently.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/technology/phone-hacking-sound-waves.html

12 Tb and 14 TB drive coming from western digital

I think I saw these a while back but I have yet to see the 12 TB drive on the shelves.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/240878-western-digital-announces-new-high-capacity-12tb-14tb-helium-filled-hard-drives

This is interesting.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/its-official-prenda-copyright-trolls-made-their-own-porn-seeded-on-pirate-bay/

IT workers replaced at university

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/public-university-lays-off-79-it-workers-after-they-train-h-1b-replacements/

Cassie - Next Generation Robot

Robo-Mate

http://www.euronews.com/2017/02/27/robo-mate-helps-industrial-workers-lift-heavy-loads-reducing-spinal-injuries

Chase Bank

Today I want to talk about security for a bit. As we all know, security is great, when applied correctly. It can also work against you when overly done. Here's a perfect example of overly done. Every time I try to connect from a different computer at home, the Chase bank always gives me this run around. I haven't had this issue with another bank. Which is the most annoying thing ever. This is not my account, I just help the person log in to their account.

Then you have to send a code to a phone or email just to get back in to your account. The computer has been re-installed and sure enough, I have to go get all the information to make sure I have the correct login. Some may say, well that's not really a problem, but it is. For example, if you go on vacation or just to visit your family elsewhere and have to check your account to maybe just see if you're payment went through or even check your balance. This will be a headache for you if you don't have your computer with you, every time. It doesn't sound as bad as it is, but the truth is because every single time I have logged into the account, I have had to go through this mess which got old pretty quick. So instead of being able to do a quick check of things, I find myself looking for the information on this account to make sure I got everything correct, if not, I have to go through this song and dance each time.
So, if you have a chase account, I feel sorry for you because this just sucks and they won't listen. I think I told them about this before, but to give you an even better example, I once tried to add money to the account with my dads ID so that the rent could be be paid. They refused the money that my dad had sent me to put into the bank. I was not taking out money, I was putting in money so it would get paid, and they refused it. I also had his ID and my ID proving that I was family and they wouldn't take it. Yes that is correct. I even wrote them a letter about it back then but never heard back from them so I thought I mention this because this is why their policies basically make no sense. In all honesty I don't think I have ever had any of these problems with any other bank, or at least I have not heard of anything like this. I know that no bank is perfect, but this has always made me wonder about this bank. They just have the weirdest way of doing business.

3D Printed home in one day

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/apis-cor-3d-prints-house-one-day-106783/

Iphone 7 lighting up?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/24/iphone_7_plus_burning_battery/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

I found a new way to clean my computers. This is the xpower duster. No more air cans or compressor needed.

 

So far it works well, take a look at the other videos on it. I have four videos posted to give you an idea of what it sounds like on both speeds.

Top 5 Best Drones Available Now (Early 2017) - YouTube

"UnderWater Fishing Drone / PowerRay™ Official Introducing"

What's old is new again. Pay phone booths are back.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2017/02/london-clear-channel-phone-boxes/

Nasa scientist gets detained until he unlocks his phone.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2017/02/nasa-scientist-detained-us-border/

Seagate has some large 2.5 inch hard drives which gives you more options.

I have yet to use any of the new seagates, but since I have been looking at hard drives I thought I check out what they have. For a nas sometimes there will be a sale but you can only get one or two, if they even have it. I need at least three for a raid setup. Since I have yet to see more specials on the 3.5 inch drives I thought I take a look at the 2.5 inch drive sizes. It looks like these are close to some of the larger drives which means I could theoretically keep a cooler nas with even lower power requirements. Well it's good to have options. I still have two old seagate drives and I'm currently using one and it's still working just fine. I know this is just an example and your mileage will vary depending on how well the new ones perform. I just hope they will get better with their warranty though, since two years just doesn't seem like much.
 http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/hdd/barracuda/