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  1. Re: I bet "landlord" isn't one of them on Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    In most places they can just pay the Sheriff to do the "throw out on the street" part, they don't even need to come to town to have that done.

    But OTOH, they do own the land.

    If you want to fight gentrification, the first thing to do is figure out what your position on "private property" is, and then get the necessary changes made to that system in the US. Then you can hope to fight gentrification. With current property rights, most land owners hear "gentrification" and think "increasing land value, yay!" And most middle class people hear, "That neighborhood is turning around, maybe we should try out that new restaurant over there?"

  2. Re:I bet "landlord" isn't one of them on Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Gentrification" is just an attempt to create a pejorative that describes what society actually wants to happen; desirable areas have increasing value.

    If you have no "gentrification" it means that everything is getting worse or staying the same, nothing is getting better. That isn't how progress works.

  3. Re:It's much worse than that... on 500,000 Duped Into Downloading Android Malware Posing As Driving Games On Google Play (forbes.com) · · Score: 2

    If you care that much about security, you already were refusing to install apps that ask for more permissions than they absolutely need for their core purpose.

    If you're like the average user and you're willing to say "yes" to letting a random application that isn't a phone dialer or email app access your mobile contacts, you've already agreed to be p0wned.

    You use it, you trust it.

    If you trust stuff you downloaded off the internet, you're already pre-p0wned; your system of using technology not only lacks basic protections, it lacks a willingness to be protected.

    It was always a mistake to trust shit. Stop trusting shit. Malware exists. Server bugs exist. Even when none of the humans making and offering the app did anything with the intention to violate your trust, your systems still got p0wned because you gave out excessive permissions and received the expected results.

    And when it starts looking like "all the apps require inflated permissions," simply switch to f-droid and you'll find reasonable alternatives.

  4. Re: This will end badly on Microsoft Now Lets You Log Into Outlook, Skype, Xbox Live With No Password (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    No, Idiots who can't say something comprehensible should probably shut up, instead of adding notations.

    Stop asking reasonable people to add unreasonable notations so that they can impersonate the babbling of morons.

  5. Re:Missed opportunity on Hawaii's Mars Simulations Are Canceled (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, or the other lesson from the Age of Sail; conscript criminals.

  6. Re: Anybody remember Capricorn 1 on Hawaii's Mars Simulations Are Canceled (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    [Allegedly.]

  7. Re: Zealot Express on Hawaii's Mars Simulations Are Canceled (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    They seem to have instead settled successfully, not given up. Sorry Ivan, you're gonna need to look that idiom up again!

  8. Re:they really believed they were on Mars. on Hawaii's Mars Simulations Are Canceled (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    So...a loony bin

    It is called a dude ranch. And if you have to ask, you're too poor to understand.

  9. Re:So far only "reports" and supposition on 500,000 Duped Into Downloading Android Malware Posing As Driving Games On Google Play (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    OTOH, I'm not convinced either.

    OTOH, I'm going to keep using fdroid for most apps, and not installing anything that wants more permissions than it needs.

  10. Re:Google vs Microsoft vs Apple on 500,000 Duped Into Downloading Android Malware Posing As Driving Games On Google Play (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's merely a steaming pile of No True Scotsman.

    If you don't have the google services, it is still Android.

    Maybe you just don't know what the words mean?

  11. Lok er UP!

  12. Re:let the apologists start jumping through hoops on Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Dude, he conducts business in the dining rooms at his golf courses. His phone is the last concern, the NSA is probably protecting that.

  13. Re:Open source is pooling the work on Yoshua Bengio, a Grand Master of Modern AI, is Worried About Its Future (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah-ha! What if there is more than one community?

  14. Re:Roller Skates on Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cares? Go down to the park, look at all the fit people exercising, those are all potential customers.

  15. Re:If The DNC were so concerned on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    You do know that individual employees of the US Government are allowed to vote, and are members of political parties just like the rest of Americans? Right?

    And that, most cops at all levels of government are Republicans?

    Just like, most of the teachers and social workers are Democrats!

  16. "Loud supersonic booms" on New Experimental Lockheed Supersonic Jet Starts Production (wtop.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    If the booms were supersonic, nobody would even complain.

    Alas, the booms are indeed sonic.

    I know you paid a quarter for that word, but my advice: Ask for change.

  17. Re:The DNC hack was a good thing. on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Uhm, what the fuck did you think Super-delegates were for?

    Why don't you Bernie Bros stop telling the Democratic Party what system the Democratic Party should use to select who it nominates to run in elections? Your guy is still not a Democrat, he's an Independent!

    Step 1: Learn the values of the Party
    Step 2: Join the Party
    Step 3: Participate in decisions about the process for selecting candidates to endorse.

    The rules are designed to prevent some grass-roots outsider from coming in an McGovern-ing the process. Stop trying to hijack the Democratic Party, we took steps to prevent it.

  18. Re:If The DNC were so concerned on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI is mostly independent, and their employees are mostly Republicans.

    These are both facts.

    The place also leaks like a sieve.

  19. Re:Should this be actionable? on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    "But whatabutt her emails"

    Oh shut the fuck up, breaking into the server is a crime, nobody cares about the details of what was stolen.

  20. Re:IMNAL, but this seems right on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    That is circular and hand-wavy; the first part isn't even relevant, you're not the police. The second part is a self-referential circle.

    Police would need "probably cause," a neighbor won't have that.

    Keep trying Ivan, you'll get these "civics" things figured out eventually!

  21. Re:Roller Skates on Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And it isn't going to improve very fast, because the people who know what it is supposed to do aren't even the customers.

    The programmers are eating their own dogfood, but none of them are dogs, and they have no idea what it is supposed to taste like.

  22. Re:Green AI Blockchain Is The Future on Yoshua Bengio, a Grand Master of Modern AI, is Worried About Its Future (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    No joke, I read all about it in The Green Brain, by Frank Herbert.

    Green AI blockchain takes over the whole world.

  23. Re:Chinese AI Goes Haywire on Yoshua Bengio, a Grand Master of Modern AI, is Worried About Its Future (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    K-Pop crashes in popularity, and male K-Pop singers can no longer afford quality makeup, hair gel and earrings, making them very, very sad.

    No, AoA Hyejeong and Chanmi would just redux Chanmi's makeup show to teach them how to take care of their skin and look good without makeup. AoA goes on social media without makeup all the time, and the fans go nuts because they're so much more beautiful in their skin than in their costumes.

    China can't take down k-pop, not even with AI. Notice, the attempt is defeated without even calling in Seolhyun!

  24. All real examples of [thing] involve cases where [the involved parties] are in between [absolutism in one direction] and [absolutism in a different direction].

    There are no True Scotsman. Not even the guy with a Gaelic username is a True Scotsman.

  25. Re:Puff piece journalism on Yoshua Bengio, a Grand Master of Modern AI, is Worried About Its Future (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Anybody who is a [Grand-]Master of something that isn't even a competition, the title is a red flag to tell you that they're an advanced amateur; for example Master Gardener, Master Recycler.

    Unless the implication is that he has a Master's Degree, then it is merely in poor style to use it as a title.

    A GrandMaster of chess, or Go, I know what it means; it means he defeated other people who already had the GrandMaster title, and earned it by demonstrating their skill.

    When the subject is software, it reads the same as "rockstar;" I can't even tell if the author is fluffing him or insulting him!