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  1. As long as the tenants have another way to enter and exit the building without being surveilled, then the landlord is welcome to put the system in.

    If the system covers every entrance and exit, then there is absolutely no practical difference than surveilling them at the entrance to their own flats.

    But if it doesn't cover every entrance and exit, then it's hardly worth installing, as anyone they would ostensibly want to profile (AirBnB-ers, sub-lessees, etc.) would be using the un-monitored entrance.

  2. Re:What have you got to hide? on Tenants Outraged Over New York Landlord's Plan To Install Facial Recognition Technology (gothamist.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As long as you're not violating occupancy laws, your landlord has absolutely no right to know who, what, or when people or things are going to or from your flat.

    The United States desperately needs an information ownership law that revises the existing "you collect it, you own it" data practises. If companies can't sell data about you, they won't bother to collect it.

  3. Re:Maybe lab grown chicken is best... on Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: 'Spaghetti Meat' (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Fresh eggs from local hens taste remarkably better than mass-grown ones. I wish I had the room and time to keep hens, ducks, and quail.

    (Also, the alternative link in the summary is bologna.)

  4. Because they're as bad at grammar as they are at security.

    It's fewer than 30.

    But it should be fewer than ONE.

  5. Re: Friggin furries on Scientists Dressed Horses Like Zebras To Figure Out Why They Have Stripes (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I think this is more stripe-dressing scientists, but we might be splitting mares here.

  6. Re:You mean NOAA on NASA Eyes Colossal Cracks In Ice Shelf Near Antarctic Station (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Shit sandwich.

  7. I haven't watched American "news" in over a decade. Journalistic integrity has flown the coop. I don't agree with much, but Trump is right about "fake news" - only he doesn't go far enough. It is almost ALL fake these days.

    The "news" doesn't report facts any longer; it sensationalises events.

    I don't want their "news". I want facts and honest analysis. I am not apathetic; I am disenfranchised. Yet somehow these cunts persist.

    I'm afraid I have to agree more with GP's oligarch statement.

  8. Re: Seems like they don't have a "leg" to stand on on Lufthansa Sues Passenger Who Missed His Flight in an Apparent Bid To Clamp Down on 'Hidden City' Trick (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Arbeit macht bleifrei, achtung alle...

  9. Re: yeah on Physicists Made a Flying Army of Laser 'Schrodinger's Cats' (livescience.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer to think that both the Copenhagen and Many-worlds interpretations are correct.

    ...until one of them is observed.

  10. Re:Trump owns it on Shutdown Hits Industries Nationwide (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I do large-scale security and risk mitigation for a living, and have done for more than two decades. I know a thing or two about walls, locks, and people.

    Trump's idea of a 'big, beautiful wall' would be as effective as the TSA. That is to say, completely useless at the task it was designed for, while making the entire situation worse.

    The whole wall concept (and to be fair, not even remotely first conceived by Trump) is worse than throwing the baby out with the bath water - it's throwing the baby out and keeping the bath water. Is it very nearly the worst possible idea for addressing the problem, and is not just a waste of money - it's actively contributing to the problem.

  11. Re:Trump owns it on Shutdown Hits Industries Nationwide (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    All of the things you mention are important.

    Not a single one of them would be addressed by a wall.

  12. Re:Trump owns it on Shutdown Hits Industries Nationwide (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    So, a wall is cheaper.

    It is cheaper, indeed.

    You know what's even cheaper than the wall and just as effective?

    Doing absolutely nothing.

    ...and saving every man, woman, and child in the United States nearly $18.

  13. Considering that's a private jet and not a commercial airliner, there's no such thing as 'economy class' on that flight.

  14. You forgot the salutation:

    "Dear Penthouse"...

  15. Re:Sigh on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 2

    To a software developer, that sounds suspiciously like scope creep.

  16. it *was* largely a bunch of white guys that brought about western culture, economics, industry and technology and societies

    Well sure, when you enslave, kill, invade, repress, marginalise, and otherwise disempower everyone who isn't a white guy, that does rather leave the pitch open for the white guys to dominate!

  17. Easier to imagine than none on /.

    (Such as yourself.)

  18. Re:There are some great ones and mostly not so gre on Movie Commentary Tracks Are Back (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    I think the commentary to Muppets from Space might have it beat.

    Kermit, Rizzo, Gonzo, and the director watch the film (MST3K-style), with some excellent one-liners.

  19. Re: Nice try Ivan on Microsoft Reveals First Known Midterm Campaign Hacking Attempts (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey friend, over here Dude.

  20. Re:A little step in the right direction. on Apple Refreshes MacBook Pro Lineup (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Windows 10 is a privacy invasion hiding behind a desktop.

    I will never use it.

    So my choices are OSX and Linux. While I love using Linux at work, it's worse than useless for work.

    For better or for worse, the majority of the time OSX just works. And sadly, Linux will never overtake Apple in that space until their overarching ethos becomes focused principally on UX (at the kernel level, not simply at the UI level).

  21. Re:You can try it at home on NASA May Have Discovered and Then Destroyed Organics on Mars in 1976 (space.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    you'll find you can easily bend it with finger pressure

    Though be aware that each finger is single-use for this test.

  22. FFS, what a day to be without mod points.

    1) You obviously didn't read TFA
    2) You can't master basic English (responsive? shotty? really??)
    3) You have no idea what you're on about.

    Step away from the keyboard. I'm revoking your internet privileges for 24 hours.

  23. Re:Glad I switched to Bitbucket so MS gets no cash on Microsoft Is Talking About Acquiring GitHub, Says Report (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This has not been my experience in any way, shape, form, or manner.

    Linkedin has become absolutely insufferable since Microsoft acquired them.

  24. Re:Technically Correct - The Best Kind of Correct on Top US Antitrust Official Uncertain of Need For Four Wireless Carriers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    people will screw each other over if left to their own devices

    If not otherwise incentivised, this is true. The goal of government/civilisation is to incentivise those behaviours that are good for both the individual and the collective... which, oddly enough, is exactly what Nash found provides the optimal outcomes for both.

  25. "DARK SIDE OF THE MOON" on China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Dark" side of the moon? In this day and age, seriously?? Even the translation of China's press release correctly refers to it as the FAR side of the moon, which actually gets slightly MORE light than the near side!