I know there are people who don’t support Edward Snowden. The only people who don’t support him are facist bigots. Of course there are facist bigots who don’t give a fuck about human rights. What do you think is going on in America? Why do you think all this shit is going on in the…

Germany has passed a law that now makes it possible to designate a baby as neither male nor female. This puts less pressure on parents of intersex children who may feel they have to rush to have the baby operated on to make it “male” or “female”.

The importance of using a password utility such as the eminent Lastpass has been shown with yet another mass-breach of user data from a large company: this time Adobe, which had a 9.2 gigabyte file of user data including passwords stolen. Lastpass is a cross-platform password manager that integrates into web browsers. It is available…

5 injured in crash involving car thief suspect (10-30) 21:21 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A young man who blew through a red light in a stolen Honda Accord triggered a violent four-car wreck on busy Geary Boulevard in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon, sending all four drivers to the hospital along with a pedestrian who…

S.F. offenders repeatedly return to streets For those who wonder why San Francisco has such a problem with street people, look no further than the case of Daniel Grijalva, who most recently came to the attention of police when – while high on paint fumes – he allegedly masturbated on a downtown street in the…

U.S. threatens to take $3.52 billion from California schools in testing dispute Reinforcing its threat to punish California for dumping its old standardized state tests next spring, the U.S. Department of Education said that decision could cost the state at least $3.5 billion. The state could lose $15 million it receives to administer a federal…

Federal complaint spurs change for non-English speakers in Oakland schools OAKLAND — A Vietnamese-speaking parent whose high school-age son was suspended, expelled and denied evaluation for special education because his school didn’t provide adequate interpretation or translation services has won new rules requiring the services as part of a civil-rights complaint brought in 2009. Without…

San Francisco Sues To Block City College Accreditation Sanctions San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop the agency that certifies two-year colleges in the western U.S. from revoking the accreditation of City College of San Francisco. In March, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges pulled the accreditation…

The following IP addresses are all from people who tried attacking my computer via SSH. My server has only been up for a couple months but look at how many intrustion attempts there are. I run a utility called DenyHosts which detects the intrusion attempts and bans them. sshd: 85.17.121.231 sshd: 195.88.62.132 sshd: 183.62.57.77 sshd:…

War is closer to erupting between Japan and China.