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In recent years, the migration wave has gained steam as housing prices soar far past other states, but the exodus has been going on for some time, according to the study. Figures show the state has seen net resident losses to other states for more than 15 consecutive years.
Still California's population continues to grow, as the number of births exceeded the number of deaths by about 220,000 in 2017, the study noted.
Figures also show there was an additional 185,000 people that immigrated to the state last year from outside the country.

And reports of teargas being used on protesters in Oakland!

It's going to be a long night.

(After weeks of being told to accept the election outcome, anything else is an attack on democracy. Sheesh!)

It seems the teargas was needed. From this article:

Tear gas has been deployed in Oakland tonight where an anti-Trump demonstration has been declared an unlawful assembly by police after bottles, rocks and firecrackers were thrown at officers.

The window of the Agave Uptown restaurant, located at 2135 Franklin St., was vandalized by a man with spray paint as members of the crowd urged the vandal to stop.

Other windows were smashed and spray-painted in the vicinity of Webster and 17th streets.
. . .
A number of fires were set on Telegraph Avenue and Broadway, and firefighters were called in to extinguish them.

(There's more in the article, but I don't know how much I'm allowed to quote from an article.)

It happens in nice areas, too. This is one of the richer areas on the Penninsula, , here is an earlier one. I've had my own home invaded as well, but the invader was unarmed, so I asked him to leave.

Unlike Kansas, California has been running a budget surplus for 4 years straight now. It now has a healthy "rainy day" fund and its financial situation is pretty much assured for the next 10 years or so.

Wishful thinking: http://www.ktvu.com/news/77148...

Oh, and even California teachers are better than no teachers in Kansas.

Not if you look at educational outcomes. In fact, no public school teachers may well be a much better state of affairs.

One could argue that in most cases, a pedestrian paying attention could have avoided getting ran over if they'd pulled their heads out of their phones long enough to look around them.

SFPD claims to be keeping better stats these days but I could not find them online.
However here is what I did find:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/...

All three victims this year entered the crosswalk only after pushing a button to activate several flashing beacons to alert drivers to stop. There are six lanes of traffic across Sunset with an island in the middle.
Thursday's crash occurred when several drivers stopped, but a Honda CRV kept going. The driver noticed the woman too late and skidded into her, clipping her with the front bumper and spinning her to the pavement.
"She said she didn't see her, " San Franicsco Police Officer Gian Tozzini told KTVU. "I don't know how she didn't see the flashers. Maybe they're just looking forward and not paying attention."

That is three victims, one fatally injured, at a single crosswalk with flashing lights in the Sunset. The description matches what I see in my little New England town where I'll slow because I see a deer stepping into the road and the car behind me thinks they need to pass me on a two lane road so as not to slow down at all - not sure how bad I'd feel other than for the deer. A pedestrian was hit in our crosswalk same way - one car stopped, person started walking, car behind did not even slow down and passed in the next lane hitting the person in the crosswalk - actually tossing them into the front window of another car that had also stopped on the other side for the pedestrian - that car was full of kids coming home from little league.

In some states passing using the oncoming lane through an intersection is against the law. Probably true everywhere, but I'm too lazy to check. In Georgia it's illegal to pass a car stopped at a pedestrian crosswalk, but how many people do you suppose knows that?

One could argue that in most cases, a pedestrian paying attention could have avoided getting ran over if they'd pulled their heads out of their phones long enough to look around them.

SFPD claims to be keeping better stats these days but I could not find them online.
However here is what I did find: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/...

All three victims this year entered the crosswalk only after pushing a button to activate several flashing beacons to alert drivers to stop. There are six lanes of traffic across Sunset with an island in the middle. Thursday's crash occurred when several drivers stopped, but a Honda CRV kept going. The driver noticed the woman too late and skidded into her, clipping her with the front bumper and spinning her to the pavement. "She said she didn't see her, " San Franicsco Police Officer Gian Tozzini told KTVU. "I don't know how she didn't see the flashers. Maybe they're just looking forward and not paying attention."

That is three victims, one fatally injured, at a single crosswalk with flashing lights in the Sunset. The description matches what I see in my little New England town where I'll slow because I see a deer stepping into the road and the car behind me thinks they need to pass me on a two lane road so as not to slow down at all - not sure how bad I'd feel other than for the deer. A pedestrian was hit in our crosswalk same way - one car stopped, person started walking, car behind did not even slow down and passed in the next lane hitting the person in the crosswalk - actually tossing them into the front window of another car that had also stopped on the other side for the pedestrian - that car was full of kids coming home from little league.

[April 28]

First link, second photo.

HA!

Considering a Smart Car is like 12k, gets good gas mileage, and is easy to street park in the city how in the world does this equal HiTech? HiTech workers definitely make enough to afford more spacious and expensive cars along with garage parking.

Is this another example of terrible Slashdot editorial comments distorting original story to "make news" as this alternative theory is not in the original source?
http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/...

I honestly don't understand why you have to provide any information to board a plane for a domestic flight. You don't have to do so to board a bus or a train or a subway - all, I would image, tempting targets. In fact, I seem to recall someone from the EFF challenging this - he attempted to board a domestic flight from somewhere in CA to DC without any papers, and was refused entry to the plan, despite being screened for security threats. If I recall, he argued that it was unconstitutional to prevent people from flying to see their representatives in Washington. I also seem to recall he lost.

Actually, here's a link http://www.ktvu.com/news/6473925/detail.html. The rules requiring identification, it turns out, are actually themselves secret!

I'm in Canada, and if I'm roaming, I fully expect to be brutally RAPED by my telco.

When down in the U.S. recently, I turned my radio off, and I really, really hope that my phone didn't apply some kind of undocumented feature to try to access some wireless data while I was out. If so, I'm screwed.

It's not just Canada either. A friend in Germany had a GPS on his new smartphone. He used the GPS to get his current location, figuring it would cost a few bucks, but it was cool. He didn't know that the app went into the background.... At the end of the month, his bill was 6000 Euro... at the time, that's about $10k USD. They're forcing him to pay the bill. He's on social assistance.

These stories are not uncommon. A coworker had a bill for $4500 on an "Unlimited voice/Unlimited data" plan. Turns out that he didn't have the "Unlimited voice/Unlimited Data/Unlimited Tethering" plan. Another story was in the newspaper recently for a fellow who thought he'd look a couple things up on the net while he was overseas. What could it cost? $100 at the most? Who cares? oh no... the bill was in the thousands.

Just search Google:

http://www.ktvu.com/news/21927813/detail.html $21k

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20003930-71.html $18k

http://boingboing.net/2007/07/31/att-iphone-intl-roam.html $3k

From that last one, it looks like I need to get the "unlimited/unlimited/unlimited/unlimited" plan if I wanted to check a web page while overseas. And here I thought the "unlimited/unlimited/unlimited" plan would be okay. Can't they just have a "please don't rape me?" plan?

They're thieves. I only have the plan because of work, and my bill and the contracts really make me very uncomfortable. What would have happened if my phone accidentally tunred on its radio and synced the email when I was in the U.S.? $10k mistake?

They are blocking some other big solar plant because of a tortoise species now.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/23665394/detail.html

The Sierra Club isn't known for being a pro-coal lobby.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/23665394/detail.html

People keep saying this but where's the proof? I haven't seen any evidence of such a policy. But I admittedly have only been partially following the case.

From: http://www.ktvu.com/news/23283217/detail.html (emphasis mine).

Childs reportedly had a fractious relationship with some of his coworkers, attorneys on both sides said. He testified at trial that he never intended to harm the network but said that other employees, including his supervisors, were not qualified to have the passwords.

Childs claimed he was merely following established industry guidelines for password protection.

"You do not ever give up your username and password," Childs said.

That doesn't sound like you make it sound. Industry guidelines are not the same as company/government policy.

To be honest I think the Slashdot community is wrong to defend this guy. He sounds like an ego-maniac driven not by security, but by the sys-admin God complex. However, that's just what I think, and I could be wrong. Sans the full transcript of the trial it's really hard to say what happened. I'd love for groklaw to take a look at it too. They probably need a break from SCO shenanigans. :)

So, we are wrong because the city didn't make any backup plans for network passwords in case of something bad happening?

Thats all this comes down to. San Franisco got butthurt because they stupidly didn't have copies of the networks passwords anywhere, but with the IT admin.

I'd be suing the city if I was Terry Childs

There has been very little quality reporting on this case. Thanks for posting your comments on it. It would be really nice if you could take your 200 pages of notes and write up a summary of the key evidence (or maybe just post the notes).

According to the linked article there must have been a finding that Mr. Childs caused at least $200,000 in damages. I have not seen this addressed anywhere*. Would you care to comment on that? How was this number arrived at? Would the damages have been different if he had been hit by a bus?

*The article has been amended to indicate the city incurred $1 million in expenses to regain control of the network and do vulnerability testing.

Childs reportedly had a fractious relationship with some of his coworkers, attorneys on both sides said. He testified at trial that he never intended to harm the network but said that other employees, including his supervisors, were not qualified to have the passwords. Childs claimed he was merely following established industry guidelines for password protection. "You do not ever give up your username and password," Childs said.

That doesn't sound like you make it sound. Industry guidelines are not the same as company/government policy.

To be honest I think the Slashdot community is wrong to defend this guy. He sounds like an ego-maniac driven not by security, but by the sys-admin God complex. However, that's just what I think, and I could be wrong. Sans the full transcript of the trial it's really hard to say what happened. I'd love for groklaw to take a look at it too. They probably need a break from SCO shenanigans. :)

RTFA before you claim something that did happen, didn't.

One juror, Jason Chilton, also a network engineer, said the law Childs was accused of breaking -- knowingly disrupting computer services or denying those services to an authorized user -- is "very specific," and though no services were actually disrupted, "he denied that access."
Chilton, however, said Childs' supervisors at the Department of Technology were also to blame. He said they "did everything wrong that they possibly could," citing "ineffective management and no formalized policies and procedures" for dealing with employees in such situations.
"If the city were on trial, they'd probably be guilty of a lot of stuff too," Chilton said.
Ultimately, Chilton said, Childs "didn't follow the law, which was the basic thing that it came down to."
Of the network engineer code about not giving up your passwords, Chilton said, "Your own passwords, yes, but you don't deny access to someone who's authorized."

FTA

This isn't news anyway. Websites like this have been around for a while. There are a few others I've seen, but I can't remember their names.

I've never complained about what makes it to the front page on Slashdot, but really, the only thing connecting this to Slashdot's genre (news for nerds, stuff that matters) is that it has something to do with email.

The Tangible User Interfaces class (which I was in) at the School of Information at UC Berkeley just had its final presentations. You can see press coverage (including video and pictures) here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/10/BAF214L2I2.DTL
http://www.ktvu.com/video/18261853/index.html

Includes a projected digital shadow around your body, an elevator where you can play with a butterfly, blowing virtual bubbles and a coffee table that tracks the cups on its surface.

This must be sarcasm... I guess...

That 'summery' was the only place I saw any reference to 'SSi number' being compromised. I saw one report on tv that specifically said that social security numbers were not on the pc. And here is another reference that says the same thing: http://www.ktvu.com/news/17098410/detail.html

I know he's not a politician but here you go. http://www.ktvu.com/news/14793841/detail.html

So... Not only is this guy not a politician but a talk show host, but he also apparently falls short on the extortion, blackmail, embezzlement, rape and murder departments. The only thing he is being charged with is child porn, which he claims to have looked at as part of journalistic research. Furthermore, this case is clearly not ignored by the media, since you yourself provided a link to a newssite depicting it.

I know he's not a politician but here you go. http://www.ktvu.com/news/14793841/detail.html

but, but... they printed a correction. Doesn't that mean we have to let it slide?

http://www.ktvu.com/news/15054540/detail.html

I like how they say that the readers may have interpreted it wrong. Those damn readers! ;-)

On Monday, KTVU reported scientists have received an odd signal from space and some readers may have interpreted this as a confirmed extra-terrestrial contact.

Don't most of you bay area (bleeks) have web browsers on your phones? Just go to http://www.ktvu.com/baytrafficmap/index.html

Oakland:

http://www.ktvu.com/news/9264350/detail.html

" . . . Former Oakland A's pitcher Billy Koch has it. And so do his wife and their three children. And though they can afford top medical care, doctors have no answers . . . It started in Oakland four years ago. Koch saved 44 games and was the top reliever in the major leagues. His fastball wowed crowds. And then the strangeness began . . ."

http://www.ktvu.com/station/4170085/detail.html
There was some indication in their stories that it is being reported in bay/coastal areas of the US.

Not everyone they talked to was crazy or cracky.

It was on the bay area news this morning. They are changing the name to AT&T Park I believe. http://www.ktvu.com/sports/5189456/detail.html

Well one thing I give props to da Guvernator for is his support of a ballot measure that gives a panel of retired judges authority over redistricting. This could help avoid the nonsense we have now in Kalleefornia where the legislature draws the district boundaries so that no incumbent of either party loses his/her seat.

(Much less the Tom DeLay nonsense in Texas, where only Democrats lose their seats by fiat.)

Unfortunately, (and predictably) the measure isn't supported by either party, and it will probably die on the vine. But it's the right idea.

Suggestions for next steps:

1. Contact the California Dept Financial Institutions and tell them one of their licensees is committing financial embezzlement and racketeering under the guise of operating under their granted license
2. Contact the Santa Clara Country District Attorney's office and tell them a Santa Clara Country corporation is committing embezzlement and racketeering with charitable donations for Katrina victims.
3. Contact SF Bay Area news media (SJ Mercury News, SF Chronicle/Examiner, KRON 4 TV, KTVU 2 TV, KPIX 5 TV, KGO 7 TV) and tell them a Santa Clara Country corporation is committing embezzlement and racketeering with charitable donations for Katrina victims. Send E-mail and call them - hearing the story from multiple channels adds credibility.
4. Collect documentation of previous malfeasance (e.g. PalPay Sucks!) and broadcast it as widely as possible. That especially includes personal networks: make it a point to tell 5 friends and 5 strangers about PayPal's unacceptable behavior in the next 24 hours. Ask those you tell to investigate the truth themselves and tell 10 people they know also. Lather. Rinse. Repeat as necessary.

This ongoing and repeated abuse must stop now!

You can bet I'll sue for lack of due process if I get slapped onto a no-fly list without a trial.

Just don't carry a passport, get a driver's license and just have an attitude, you'll blend right in. Or just claim you are a student in grad school (most people in engineering with me were foreigners). Have an accent? So does half the country :) Just avoid the midwest, there's nothing to see there anyways.
I'm intrigued by what sorts of things your friends had happen to them in US. Maybe there is a foreign parinoia, like in the US we hear about the dangers of "los Federales" and Mexican prison, the caning of people in Singapore, "disappearances" in China, beatings in Eastern Europe.
Then when you actually travel to those places you realize it's all hyped up.

Our south of the border friends release pictures of a rather large number of questionable "invisible" ships, and the intellegent life forms say **** this. Seriously, I'd love to know how this hoax was set up. (less seriously) if it's not a hoax I wonder if the Aliens are islamic fundementalists that threaten the American way of life...

You must have a warped world view to advocate having people jailed for costing you time and money. Especially in a world where someone only gets 1 year for a hit-and-run that killed a little girl and maimed another.

-molo

...protest

I knew nature had to hate SUVs.