The US Department of Agriculture is changing the name of Wayne National Forest in Ohio to something less offensive, like the "Buckeye National Forest," after a coalition of leftist Karens; I'm sorry, I meant "American Indian Tribes and local community members" objected to a national forest named after a legitimate American hero.

The national forest is currently named after General Anthony Wayne, whose complicated legacy includes leading a violent campaign against the Indigenous peoples of Ohio that resulted in their removal from their homelands. The current forest name is offensive because of this history of violence. Buckeye National Forest is one of the names suggested to the Forest Service by American Indian Tribes. Other proposed names considered included “Ohio National Forest” and “Koteewa National Forest.” //

Before I go too far, I’d like to start this essay with a land acknowledgment statement.

My home sets on land first explored by English and Scots-Irish freemen who had migrated from their homeland in search of freedom and opportunity or sometimes on the run from the law. The land was settled primarily by Germans from the Palatinate, who, through their industry, created farms, pastures, and orchards where only unproductive, fallow wilderness had existed. These men and women held savage tribes at bay and together created a nation that has been the beacon of hope to the world for over two hundred years. This land was conquered, not stolen, and any acknowledgment we make is owed to those who, with axe and musket, created the most powerful nation in the history of the world and we don’t owe a damn thing to anybody for being proud of their accomplishment. //

For those unacquainted with "Mad" Anthony Wayne, he was one of George Washington's most effective regimental and divisional commanders. He didn't take shortcuts. He trained his men hard. When he was embarrassed by the enemy, such as at the Battle of Paoli, where his regiment was mauled by British light infantry in a bold night attack, he learned the lessons and paid his adversaries back severalfold using their own tactics; see the Battle of Stony Point.

He was called back to active duty after two stunning defeats were inflicted upon the US Army (Hamar's Defeat and the Battle of Wabash) by the Miaimi Confederacy, led by Little Turtle of the Miami and Blue Jacket of the Shawnee, contested American ownership of what is now Ohio.

Measuring 3-meters tall, the Schiphol Clock presents a fascinating 12-hour video of Baas using a paint roller to consistently create—and repeatedly erase—the hands of the clock minute by minute for 12 hours straight. To Baas, this tireless and tedious approach to time-telling is the heart of the piece, which he describes as a “hyper-realistic representation of time.” He explains: “Real time is a term that is used in the film industry. It means that the duration of a scene portrays exactly the same time as it took to film it. I play with that concept in my Real Time clocks by showing videos where the hands of time are literally moved in real time.”

In the video, Baas is dressed in a pair of blue coveralls. In his hands, he holds a bright red bucket and vivid yellow rag. Though this look is predominantly inspired by the “many faceless men who sweep, clean and work at an airport,” it is also based on less obvious muses: distinctive Dutch artists (and primary color enthusiasts) Piet Mondrian and Gerrit Rietveld.

The lifespan of data on a USB flash drive depends on many factors: Under ideal conditions, data should remain preserved on a high-quality USB stick for at least 10 years or even longer. But what exactly does that mean and under what conditions does this hold true?

USB sticks or flash drives store data using NAND flash memory, in the form of binary valuesd (zeros and ones) in memory cells. Interestingly, it is electrons trapped in a kind of “floating gate” that represent these values. But these electrons can “leak” over time. This causes the data to degrade because it becomes harder to read whether the charge state represents a one or a zero. //

If the stick is exposed to high temperatures for a long time, this can cause the electrons to “leak” faster, which can damage the data and lead to its loss.

Ransomware negotiations are usually shrouded in secrecy, but some security experts think that we should make them public and analyze them to glean insights. So that's exactly what we did.

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one of the signals that a war is over and peace is achieved is when the defeated enemy is allowed to honor their war dead.

“If the victorious side starts to desecrate their enemies war memorials, it means the war is back on,” he said.

“Look at what happens when divers find a sunken Japanese battleship,” he said.

“They will inform the Japanese government, and they would turn that into a memorial, a gravesite--not allowing anybody near it,” he said. “We don't desecrate those memorials, even though they're a thousand feet underwater.” //

Kennedy said no one was worse to American soldiers than the Japanese soldiers, but Southerners are no longer given the same respect.

“We are American citizens, Americans, descendants of the founding fathers, our heroes cannot be honored, and we're not allowed to honor their graves.” //

Just an old soldier...
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America is turning into one, long Maoist/Communist struggle session. America must be made to hate her past. All evidence of the evil past must be destroyed and defamed. Great American Forts like Bragg, Benning and Hood will be renamed so soldiers who served there will know they served at evil locations for an evil cause. You will be ashamed of your history!
How did America hating leftists get to be in charge of EVERYTHING? //

C. S. P. Schofield anon-055q
19 hours ago
Like you, I have scant patience with the Confederacy and its mythology. But I cannot help but notice that the political party most closely concerned with erasing traces of the Confederacy is the party that supported it. And that that party STILL divides people by race… //

emptypockets
20 hours ago
How very ISIS-like so many in America have become. Destroying art because some don't like what or who it represents or commemorates even though it is true remembrance of our actual history. The Left screeches about how so much of our history hasn't been honest--as they forge ahead destroying bits that don't comport with their delusional dystopian narrative.

Besides, sculptor was a Jewish American so hit them with "ANTI-SEMITES!"

It's a beautiful piece of artistry and workmanship remembering a very unbeautiful part of our history. //

Jerry1955 anon-1etz
15 hours ago
Cutting heads and noses off statues. Blowing up Buddahs. Some create. Some appreciate. Some as are so pitiful they can only destroy. //

laughinglordwithweepingeyes
a day ago
The great conquerors make honorary monuments to the best from their enemies and inspire.

The small-minded conquerors try to pretend they were never threatened by erasing their foe. //

Michael1745
19 hours ago
The tragedy is this is a symbol of America’s national reconciliation. It has nothing to do with the dead institution of slavery or secession. One would think the Army would have more important issues to deal with than promoting hate, division and regional bigotry.

Mike Goff, the prinicpal Deputy Assistant Secretary for nuclear energy at the DOE, shared a long list of reasons why he is more optimistic about the future of nuclear energy than he has been at any time in his 35 year career at national labs and as a direct DOE employee. //

He described his recent appearance at a Congressional hearing where 28 representatives asked questions with none of them asking “why nuclear?” Instead they asked how they could help nuclear, most of them wanted to help nuclear projects move faster. He said that the industry has a great opportunity to prove it can deliver. //

Regarding the operating fleet, he described how the DOE, industry and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) are cooperating to ensure that plants continue to operate safely and reliably. Several have already received subsequent license renewals that allow the plants to operate for up to 80 years, but there is no reason to believe that is the ultimate limit. There is already discussion about the activities needed to enable operation to 100 yrs. //

Then Goff made some statements that noticeably captured audience attention, based on both looking around the room and engaging in a number of conversations after the session. He told us that recent DOE studies show that the US needs 300 GW of total nuclear capacity by 2050. Getting there will require keeping as much of the existing fleet as possible while also building at a rate that exceeds the fastest achieved rate from the 1970s during the period from 2030-2050. //

Jim Schaefer, senior managing director of Guggenheim Partners, provided a strong message about the need for nuclear power for meeting decarbonization goals and the pressing need for the industry to improve its ability to deliver projects on time and on budget.

He leads a team of 100 clean energy-focused bankers that have completed 350 deals during the past 8 years. Most of those deals have been in solar, wind and battery storage. He and his team have realized that those technologies are not sufficient for meeting the goal of decarbonizing the grid. Investors and industry need to reallocate dollars towards clean firm technologies that can work all the time.

They have concluded that there is no doubt that hydrogen has a role; geothermal has a role; but that “advanced reactors are kind of it.” He said “Right now, to me, the greatest demand for any kind of energy product that has ever existed is the future need for advanced reactors.”

He sees growing recognition of this insight among investors, in DC, in the electric utility sector, and in the chemical and oil industries.

What then can we conclude from all this? First that, all other things being equal, sleeping on your side seems to have several advantages, but your precise posture can have an effect on neck and back pain – and the side you sleep on can increase or reduce acid reflux. Snoring increases if you sleep on your back, but we all vary so it could still be the way you sleep best.

What are Canarytokens

You'll be familiar with web bugs, the transparent images which track when someone opens an email. They work by embedding a unique URL in a page's image tag, and monitoring incoming GET requests.

Imagine doing that, but for file reads, database queries, process executions or patterns in log files. Canarytokens does all this and more, letting you implant traps in your production systems rather than setting up separate honeypots.
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Why should you use them

Network breaches happen. From mega-corps, to governments. From unsuspecting grandmas to well-known security pros. This is (kinda) excusable. What isn't excusable, is only finding out about it, months or years later.

Canarytokens are a free, quick, painless way to help defenders discover they've been breached (by having attackers announce themselves.)

But despite their increasing complexity, a great many initial intrusions that lead to data theft could be nipped in the bud if more organizations started looking for the telltale signs of newly-arrived cybercriminals behaving like network tourists, Cisco says.

“One of the most important things to talk about here is that in each of the cases we’ve seen, the threat actors are taking the type of ‘first steps’ that someone who wants to understand (and control) your environment would take,” Cisco’s Hazel Burton wrote. “Examples we have observed include threat actors performing a ‘show config,’ ‘show interface,’ ‘show route,’ ‘show arp table’ and a ‘show CDP neighbor.’ All these actions give the attackers a picture of a router’s perspective of the network, and an understanding of what foothold they have.” //

when those stolen resources first get used by would-be data thieves, almost invariably the attackers will run a series of basic commands asking the local system to confirm exactly who and where they are on the victim’s network.

This fundamental reality about modern cyberattacks — that cybercriminals almost always orient themselves by “looking up” who and where they are upon entering a foreign network for the first time — forms the business model of an innovative security company called Thinkst, which gives away easy-to-use tripwires or “canaries” that can fire off an alert whenever all sorts of suspicious activity is witnessed.

“Many people have pointed out that there are a handful of commands that are overwhelmingly run by attackers on compromised hosts (and seldom ever by regular users/usage),” the Thinkst website explains. “Reliably alerting when a user on your code-sign server runs whoami.exe can mean the difference between catching a compromise in week-1 (before the attackers dig in) and learning about the attack on CNN.”

These canaries — or “canary tokens” — are meant to be embedded inside regular files, acting much like a web beacon or web bug that tracks when someone opens an email. //

Thinkst operates alongside a burgeoning industry offering so-called “deception” or “honeypot” services — those designed to confuse, disrupt and entangle network intruders. But in an interview with KrebsOnSecurity, Thinkst founder and CEO Haroon Meer said most deception techniques involve some degree of hubris. //

One nice thing about canary tokens is that Thinkst gives them away for free. Head over to canarytokens.org, and choose from a drop-down menu of available tokens

Use this worksheet to plug in values for all variables that will impact your systems' performance. It will automatically calculate your total link loss and tell you if your system falls within Corning’s recommended guidelines.

The US Department of Energy has reversed former President Trump’s ban on the import of certain electrical equipment from China.

Niagara Power Transformer offers a complete range of liquid-filled power transformers. Our power transformers are designed and manufactured with availability and longevity at the forefront.

China’s worsening economy and Biden’s ineptitude increase the likelihood of Xi playing the jingoistic card of war and invasion. //

But there’s a way out, one common to dictators: start a war to stoke nationalist fervor.

This option is often overlooked by Western observers, who feel comfortable in their mirror-imaging fallacies. Under this bias, they assume that foreign regimes act with the same rationale as the nations where they have lived, studied, vacationed, or worked.

The mysterious ’disappearance’ of China’s top diplomat is the latest proof that Xi is a ruthless dictator.  //

A dictator who is cruel to his own people doesn’t care about our people’s well-being. He will not hesitate to harm America and our allies’ interests. The sooner the Biden administration recognizes the true nature of Xi and his regime and develops appropriate policy responses, the better we can protect ourselves and our allies.  

In 2011, Corning replaced the FBC-001 with an upgraded version called the FBC-002. The benefits of the FBC-002 that initiated this change are: extended blade life from 1,000 cleaves to 5,000 cleaves; the FBC-002 prevents excessive bending that can result in permanent damage to the tool's tab; and better control of the bend radius when cleaving, which localizes the bend point and minimizes twist, resulting in a higher quality cleave. The FBC-001 is now obsolete as a result.

You can view a video on how to use the FBC-002 Cleaver here. http://youtu.be/dlCKpdvUQZA

What is the difference between the FBC-007 and FBC-015 cleavers?
In August, 2011 Corning released the FBC-007 cleaver, which replaced the FBC-015 cleaver as the standard offering in the UniCam® High-Performance Installation Tool Kit. The benefits of the FBC-007 that led to this change are reduced maintenance requirements and a more intuitive, user-friendly design that maintains a high-quality cleave of less than one degree. The FBC-015 is now obsolete as a result.

You can view a video onhow to use the FBC-007 Cleaver here. https://ecatalog.corning.com/optical-communications/EMEA/en/p/FBC-007

Economy Day Tanks were designed to fit the demand for a "basic" day tank. Customers and specifying engineers required a transfer pump and motor located on the tank, but did not require the tank to have any other signals, relays or lights. Our Economy Day Tanks are a simplified version of the Automatic Day Tank. The tanks come standard with a fuel level gauge, 2" manual fill connection, 2 GPM pump with 1/3 HP motor, and a level switch that automatically maintains the fuel level in the tank.

Biden’s National Highway Transportation Safety Administration quietly published new proposed fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks. If the new rule were implemented as written, new cars and light trucks would be forced to meet a 66-mile-per-gallon and 54-mile-per-gallon standard, respectively, by 2032.

This rule, along with the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed de facto electric vehicle mandate to require nearly 70% of all new car sales to be electric vehicles by 2032, is being implemented to further the Biden regime’s climate agenda.

Of particular interest is the rationale for the rule. The NHTSA repeatedly claims that by instituting these nearly impossible fuel economy standards, America will become more energy secure, thereby increasing national security. The central planners argue that by forcing new cars to use less gas, America would be less dependent on imports. //

However, America is one of the world’s largest producers of oil and natural gas. If energy security were truly important to Biden, he would be promoting policies that increase gas and oil production instead of reducing the production of two of the nation’s most valuable commodities. //

Regulating gas-powered cars out of existence while subsidizing electric vehicles is a boon to China, since it controls 80% of global EV battery production and holds much influence over nations awash with the rare earth minerals to produce those batteries, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the event of a forced EV transition, as Biden has planned for 2032, America would become further dependent on China and would enrich the Chinese Communist Party.

Furthermore, by restricting oil and gas leasing on public lands, as the Bureau of Land Management seeks to do in Colorado, for instance, Biden is cutting the amount of domestic energy production and the amount of electricity that Americans can use to power their homes, businesses, and lives (because a certain share of power plants generate electricity using natural gas). //

According to Heritage Foundation chief statistician Kevin Dayaratna, even if America were to stop all conventional fuel use, global temperatures would be reduced by a mere 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2100. At the same time, China has abandoned the Paris Agreement on climate and is expected to increase carbon emissions from its coal-fired power plants.

As useful as the Windows 10 context menu is, there are aspects of its design we sought to improve in Windows 11.

• The most common commands – cut, copy, paste, delete, and rename – are far from the mouse pointer, touch point, or pen.
• The menu is exceptionally long. It has grown in an unregulated environment for 20 years, since Windows XP, when IContextMenu was introduced.
• It includes commands which are rarely used.
• Commands that should be grouped together – such as Open and Open with – are sometimes far apart.
• Commands added by apps have no common organizational schema and can interrupt sections of inbox commands.
• Commands added by apps are not attributable to the app itself.

Ive had to manually reset and stage profile/application setup for at least 100 computers this year, and the most time efficient thing I found was winget import to auto install a large number of apps, import default app associations by xml, and liberal use of cmd. //

Breaking the right-click context menu for files is so annoying. To get to any of the actual installed things that hooked into the right click menu, I've got to click "Show More Options" every... single... time...
Run this from an admin command prompt and then reboot:

reg add HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32 /ve /d "" /f

This will restore the proper right-click context menu -- something that Microsoft never should have changed in the first place.

And that is the big problem that can't be emphasized enough: Windows 11 is a gigantic pile of stupid, pointless changes. Dozens of things changed for no good reason, and each one of them just making things a little bit worse. //

For what it's worth, you can disable most of this via Windows Settings-->System-->Notifications. Scroll to the bottom and uncheck everything under Additional settings. //

To set up a local account instead of being forced through signing up with a Microsoft one, press shift-F10 as soon as you go through the OOBE. This will being up a command prompt (which may not have focus 🙄). In the command prompt, type in

oobe\bypassnro

Hit enter and your computer will reboot. After the reboot you will now be able to say you don't have an internet connection and you will able to create a local account instead. //

You can also hold the Shift key while you right-click to skip directly to the legacy right-click context menu, instead of clicking the "Show More" button. //

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID

Right-click the blank area in the right portion of the window and select New > Key, then paste {86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2} as the key name.

Next, right-click on {86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2} in the Registry Editor sidebar and select New > Key. Then name the new key InprocServer32 .

Next, right-click on {86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2} in the Registry Editor sidebar and select New > Key. Then name the new key InprocServer32 .

After that, close Registry Editor and restart your Windows 11 PC.