If they end up selling the NEX unit I really hope it's sold to anyone but Broadcom. I have a deep seated hatred of Broadcom for how they handled VMware post acquisition.

They reduceded $3.2 million in OpEx down to $200k in OpEx by spending $2.2 million in CapEx. I see they are private currently but if they are planning an IPO or sale to private equity that $3 million bump in EBITDA will make them much more appealing.

The article linked is from 2015 but team USA won this year as well. https://maa.org/news/usa-first...

The core i3-N300 has a 7W TDP so I agree it could easily be passively cooled. I am still excited to see the airjet in a commercial product as this increases the likelihood we'll start to see other devices that utilize the airjet. I'm personally looking forward to the first m2 drive to come to market with an air jet as they are much smaller than any of the m2 coolers I've used in the past.

And at least according to TFS they'd be wrong to do so: "When it comes to someone pinned beneath a vehicle, the most effective way to unpin them is to lift the vehicle," Sgt. Kathryn Winters, a spokesperson for the department, said in an interview. Were a driver to move a vehicle with a person lying there, "you run the risk of causing more injury."

Aptera is doing just that. https://aptera.us/

When I'm decommissioning storage I take the drives to the hardware shredding room in my data center. The only way they get diverted prior to destruction is if I walk out the front door with them instead of shedding them.

For those wondering "IDM 2.0 is an evolution of the company's integrated device manufacturing (IDM) model mixed with two contrasting ingredients: outsourcing and foundry services." See https://www.tomshardware.com/n... for more details.

I was unaware that Windows 10 is a Linux distro...

Text to speech and speech to text

I'm not saying that a kid wouldn't do it I'm just saying that said kid would not be able to use stand your ground laws to cover their ass as suggested by the poster I was responding to

That's not how stand your ground laws work. There needs to be a direct and imminent threat to life (and in some cases property) for a successful "stand your ground" affirmative defense.

That would be a tebifactory.

I'm most familiar with SIP/RTP rather than the more traditional PSTN infrastructure. I can tell you that all major SIP/RTP providers do have fraud monitoring algorithms running and will alert you to potential fraud occurring on your network that you are sending to theirs. You are generally given an opportunity to respond with evidence that this is legitimate traffic or to take action to discontinue the fraudulent use of the network. Invalid callerid information, high volumes of calls with short duration (generally less than 60 or 45 seconds), calls to multiple high cost destinations, or complaints from recipients are situations that can trigger this (clearly not an exhaustive list).

The real trouble is that there are hundreds (if not thousands) of SIP/RTP providers to use, especially if you are not as concerned with a provider that has super high quality or deliverability written into the SLAs. Also there are many poorly configured session border controllers or SIP gateways out there that are ripe for misuse by individuals with less than honorable intentions. So if a scammer gets shutdown through one provider they can easily move on to the next. Also with SIP it can be relatively easy to obscure your identity from the provider through the use of VPN tunnels and methods to obscure the source of funding for the account.

Overall what I'm trying to get at is that I agree with your desire to shutdown the scammers and reduce the spam/scam calls that we all receive on a regular basis but as someone that uses multiple Tier-1 SIP providers to guarantee deliverability from my voice infrastructure and with a legitimate need to have thousands of different source numbers generate from my voice infrastructure (none of which are numbers that I own or have any claim to) I can't get onboard with some of the restrictions you have suggested in an earlier post.

Contrary to popular belief the 555 exchange is a valid exchange in many area codes.