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And, of course, Breaking Bad: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0903747

Wired, do the right thing and print this one, too.

By now you probably know that Craigslist sucks as a way to sell stuff.

Uh, no it doesn't. I never got a single spam, and I've sold about 10 things (mostly electronic) over the last year. Not one of hte people flaked on me or tried to haggle once I met them. Yeah, they haggled before (on the phone or via email), but once I met them, everyone was nice and kept to the agreed upon price.

I came here to say just this. She is not liberal in any sense. She's the worst kind of politician. I will not vote for her again. Anyone but her.

Rents have shot up by ~50% since 2008

More than that. Rents for apartments have doubled in the last year in Oakland, says my friend who owns a lot of diverse properties in the East Bay, so you know it's much worse in SF.

Yeah you can tell that that those are facts, because it says so right there in the domain name.

Wow, you're adding a lot to this discussion.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/

  Promises kept: 45%
  Compromised: 25%
  Broken: 22%
  Stalled: 1%
  In the works: 6%
  not rated: 1%

I even prefer it to 7 (or Android) on touch enabled devices

A lot of us aren't. And we hate Windows 8.

My 2008 Toyota Highlander has had like 3-4 recalls that I had to go into the dealer for. The last of which was software. And, I'm not counting the one where I pulled in for a service and the dude said "whoa, your tires are falling apart" and I got 5 brand new tires. I had 15k miles on the originals.

Wow, the MSM really loves kicking on Tesla.

This is the wrong fight. Protester vs. Googler is a distraction. There are other, root causes of the problem that make the protesters angry, and doing this might relieve some frustration for them, but it does no good, and arguably does harm to their cause and gets us no closer to real solutions.

Back in the 70's, Berkeley, a close neighbor, decided that rent control was the answer. It turns out that it helped, but it had too many unintended consequences (people living in $200 nice apartments for decades when they made really good money, thus completely defeating the purpose of rent control).

So, rent control didn't work, at least not in the way it was done in Berkeley. Did it work in SF? Doesn't seem to have. NYC? I hear nightmare stores of their issues.

It's the dialog of the greater problems we need to have, not these stupid little fights.

So Gmail offers now autocomplete for G+ contacts but not for contacts in your actual Google Contacts (address book)?!

You obviously don't use gmail. It's worked this way forever. And, the picture in the article shows this, too.

Yes.

Buchwald based his decision on the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which settled the Mexican-American War, and required that the United States recognize Mexican land grants as long as the owner filed a claim. The original owner of the coastal property filed such a claim. The U.S. government challenged his land patent, but the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed his ownership in 1859 -- 14 years before the California Constitution was first drafted.

I can't make head nor tail of this.[1]

EDIT: OK, this[2] is clearer:

The judge's ruling skirts the fundamental conflict between the rights of private property owners and the rights of Californians to access the shoreline. Instead, Buchwald rooted his decision in the land's history during the mid-19th century. Since there was no public easement attached to the property at the time the United States acquired California from Mexico, the judge reasoned, the question of whether the California Constitution now guarantees access to the beach is immaterial.

The original owner of the property was Jose Maria Alviso, who received a provisional land grant from the Mexican government in the late 1830s. He later transferred the property to his brother, Jose Antonio Alviso, whose rights to the property were upheld under the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which settled the Mexican-American War. The U.S. government challenged Alviso's land patent, but the Supreme Court confirmed Alviso's ownership in 1859.

[1] http://www.nbcbayarea.com/Vinod-Khosla-Can-Keep-Public-Off-B...

[2] http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24380282/vinod-k...

42 companies * $40M is $1.7B. Wow.

Google spreadsheets lacks basic features. Like selecting multiple, dis contiguous cells or rows/columns.

Can you select multiple, discontiguous cells or columns or rows yet?? That's the thing that kills me that is not implemented.

The "Round Trips" don't say where they go and all the links on the right don't work for me.

Because the backlight is still on for a while. If they wanted, when they turn off the backlight, they could leave the page you were reading visible. They choose to show an "off" image, though.

git comes with either Mac OS X 10.9 or Xcode, as it was installed in /usr/bin/ before I went to install it from Macports.

I'm surprised to find not one defense of Mark like there was in the original thread a few weeks ago, when the trial started. At that time, there were a bunch of people with very specific arguments why it wasn't insider trading. I don't remember the specifics, but I remember reading and I found them interesting.

Too bad he never commits to either side. Just lots of talking around the issue.

Economists who want to study the effect of a basic income can travel to Alaska and see the impact for themselves.

Can you say more about this? What is the perceived impact?

Deep sleep sounds restful, but during it our brains are actually working hard. One of the main things the brain is doing is moving memories from short-term storage into long-term storage, allowing us more short-term memory space for the next day. If you don't get adequate deep sleep then these memories will be lost.

Compacting garbage collection.

For some reason the FB adds, on my feed, are very sexually suggestive. Somehow, seeing cleavage next to pics of family... seems very creepy to me. I really hate it.

There is a much higher connection between the shoes and player for "jordan", though. Especially a link in time.

I'm failing to see what this has to do with the threat model that port knocking addresses.

You said:

I think port knocking is really silly and you shouldn't waste time with it. Disable root logins and password logins in SSH.

I'm pointing out that will lead to less security, not more, for the stated reason.

Suffice it to say that an attacker who has access to your SSH identity file has with virtually total certainty access to your SSH passphrase as well.

How so? By brute for cracking it?

I completely agree. I find the color scheme very difficult to read. I used to read his blog, but stopped when I realized the green on black was giving me a headache.

He's why it's not silly and why disabling password logins and using key-based logins in SSH doesn't increase your security:

If you turn off password logins, people will use authorized_keys to in effect get a password-less login. If their public key has a password, this is OK, since they're either using ssh-agent or typing in their password at the time of the login. However, what if their ssh key has no password on it? That gives a password-less login path to my host, which is less secure. The problem is, it is impossible to detect, on the server side, a login with a key with no password.

The prequels were horribly acted

They had great actors, so it must have been the writing that sucked, not the actors.

Yes! Thanks.

I don't agree with that. I had two home burglaries. Never any followup from them on that. Again, sample size is everything.