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Re: Celebrating 10 years of blogging! Perturbator concert review: synthwave outrun retro wave music, Akade 80s fashion.

netik — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:39:02 -0000

Congrats, was really nice to meet you the one time you made it to SF and we dragged you to a party. --John

Re: Cafe Gratitude Owners Say They're Getting Death Threats From Vegans

netik — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:21:02 -0000

Does no one in LA, including this author, not remember why they closed in SF? I don't support death threats, but I certainly support a business failing when they don't treat people as well as they supposedly treat their animals.

They barely paid their staff, they were under multiple lawsuits and were forced out of SF to give it another go in LA. Please go read how terribly they've treated their employees.

http://www.huffingtonpost.c...

Re: San Francisco Goth parties & gay nightlife. Wicked Grounds, Cat Club.

netik — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 20:30:35 -0000

Great having you in the city. Glad you could make Autumn's party.

Re: No Chemicals Found in Outer Richmond Apartment Building Where Body Was Found « KRON4 – San Francisco Bay Area News

netik — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 02:49:13 -0000

My friend died here, don't be such a cold-hearted jerk.

Re: The 10 Best Music Venues In San Francisco

netik — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 21:24:09 -0000

Club deluxe barely has a live sound system and no FOH. No DNA Lounge? No Slim's? What gives.

Re: SFMTA Stripes Bike Lanes on Folsom Street Connecting SoMa and the Mission

netik — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:43:55 -0000

I applaud this work. More of this and less of, "Oh, let's just drop a bike lane symbol in the middle of a busy street and call it a bike lane".

Re: The Ongoing Battle: NY vs. SF Tech Scene | Techendo - Tech Life. Culture. News.

netik — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:36:45 -0000

TriBeCa. Triangle Below Canal.

Anyway, location semantics aside, I feel that I experienced exactly the opposite when moving from Boston to NYC, and later to SF. NYC was stodgy, not very accepting of tech, and now it seems that there's been an inversion of sorts in the last ten years. The city's cleaned up quite a bit and a pleasure to be in now. I'm still in SF, though, and a strong supporter of the tech scene and art scene here.

Re: Best Bloody Marys In San Francisco

netik — Mon, 27 May 2013 13:12:30 -0000

No mention of the $20 bloody mary at Waterbar, featuring two massive prawns, lavendar salt, and bacon? The shame...

Re: What Did 1988 Los Angeles Think 2013 Los Angeles Would Look Like?

netik — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:00:17 -0000

As a network engineer, they got the networking topics wrong here. People do not connect to the "Integrated Services Digital Network." That's ISDN, an outdated technology from the 90's. We do use DSL and Fiber, but Fiber does not and never has connected anyone to ISDN. ISDN is a copper-base technology.

Re: Aaron Swartz Case Was ‘a Good Use of Prosecutorial Discretion,’ Attorney General Says

netik — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:23:47 -0000

"I wrote a letter asking about the prosecution and asking questions of prosecutorial zeal and even misconduct", Does not mean, "Cornyn said the prosecution was based on zeal and misconduct" as you write.

It means " I am asking if the following are true. "

Re: Aaron Swartz Case Was ‘a Good Use of Prosecutorial Discretion,’ Attorney General Says

netik — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:18:58 -0000

Did everyone who read this, including the person who wrote this article, not understand what the context is here for 'prosecutorial discretion'?

He does not describe the -case- as a good use of prosecutorial discretion -- He describes the fact that the charges carry a 35 year+ sentence, and the prosecutor decided to offer a 3,4, or 5 month sentence in a series of pleas. That is the discretion here.

The first line of your article misrepresents the words that are spoken here.

Re: Why The iOS 6.1 Exploit Is No Reason To Worry

netik — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:55:18 -0000

Given that the DHS has indicated they can seize the devices of americans within 100mi of the border, and that during routine stops police are copying phone data, your definition of police state is coming closer to home every day.

Re: Why The iOS 6.1 Exploit Is No Reason To Worry

netik — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:35:49 -0000

Uh, just because you had a problem breaking into your iPhone doesn't mean this isn't a serious vulnerability.

What if you, as a journalist, were wanted by police in a country because you exposed something about the government? Your information was on my phone, and I was arrested.

What if the people in those photos were also subject to persecution? Your argument here is essentially, "Unless you have something to hide, who cares?" and I don't want to live in a world that functions without anonymity and privacy.

Think of the consequences.

Re: Deploying surveillance countermeasures on the web?

netik — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:18:38 -0000

Why wouldn't you just use Privoxy and block facebook's (and many others) cookies? You're not using the countermeasures that are readily available.

Re: Creating strong passwords is easier than you think

netik — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:56:08 -0000

Most of the time when these sites have restrictions on password length, they are outwardly advertising the fact that they are storing passwords in fixed-length columns in their database and not hashing passwords. If they were hashing size wouldn't matter.

Re: Creating strong passwords is easier than you think

netik — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:54:31 -0000

I agree with you on the 'lying to password questions' thing. Those password retrieval questions should be filled with 20+ character long randomized passwords. What I don't agree with is your reluctance to use a password manager.

You shouldn't know your passwords. You should only know a strong master password that can be used to unlock your password manager and your passwords should be as long and as complex as the remote site allows. (20+ characters, fully random.)

Why? Because you also shouldn't be typing your passwords. Most password managers will integrate with the browser and only send your passwords to the registered site. For example, if you were phished and sent a link to "twiiiitttttter.com" instead of "twitter.com", your manual approach would be to type your known password to the phishing site unless you were very, very careful about reading the URL.

If you aren't typing your passwords, and your manager only sends a password when it's absolutely, certain that you are on twitter.com, you're much safer.

Re: DNA Lounge: 11-Nov-2012 (Sun) Wherein we dry up.

netik — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:59:39 -0000

I always hated that thing. It stank, it didn't work, and people would stick their grimy paws in it all the time.

Good riddance indeed.

Re: DNA Lounge: 28-Sep-2012 (Fri) Wherein I vent about our ABC permit.

netik — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:12:45 -0000

Bravo for fighting the surveillance clause. That is some bullshit.

Re: Twitter DM Phishing Scams – Have I been hacked ?

netik — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:17:44 -0000

You're giving misleading information.

You have not been "Hacked" because you clicked on a link. You are, more accurately, Phished, when you enter your credentials into the fake twitter login screen and click submit.

You're also not logged out of Twitter when you click the link. The attacker is attempting to make you -think- you've been logged out of Twitter, which you have not been.

Re: Louis C.K. addresses ticket scalpers: ‘It’s a tremendous risk’ (Exclusive)

netik — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:13:27 -0000

This is so easy to solve. Print the buyer's name on the Ticket. You're checking ID anyway at the door, so match it up like a boarding pass and be done with it. No more scalpers at that point.

Re: DNA Lounge: 13-Jun-2012 (Wed) Wherein the Apocalypse has been averted!

netik — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:50:17 -0000

Congrats, man, this is great news.

Re: DNA Lounge: 1-Jun-2012 (Fri) Wherein the Permit Apocalypse is revealed.

netik — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:38:12 -0000

Not a single person in that photo is under 50. Ow.

Re: Groupon shares tumble to new low after lock-up expires

netik — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:47:21 -0000

Like rats leaving a sinking ship. Ouch.

Re: DNA Lounge: 31-May-2012 (Thu) Wherein love for the city goes unrequited.

netik — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:53:34 -0000

What the fuck? Who mentioned libertarians?

Re: The Snitch - Erin Sherbert - San Francisco Bars to Install Creepy Facial Detection Cameras Inside Venues

netik — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:31:21 -0000

I haven't used your product but I deeply understand the ramifications for user privacy in the face of invasive technologies such as these.
This is almost as bad as ID scanners at the door which are sold as devices to "protect the venue against underage drinking" but really are designed to skim data off of the back of the ID for marketing, demographic, and advertising purposes. That data's stored. What's to stop you from taking the image of my face, which you now have from your database and passing that to another image search to correlate my face with my social networking profile? You don't need to share pictures to mine them for demographics. Do you correlate faces visit-to-visit? Your site clams that you never store images or share them. How can we be so sure?