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I think its just the good old 1990s scenario repeating itself, only this time with IoT, rather than usual IT.

First, a mad rush towards the IoT where every startup and their dog wants to setup their business on IoT. Then comes fear as the hackers try to exploit every hole in IoT devices. And finally, once people realize the importance of keeping with the software upgrades, the market will settle somewhere in between.

Yet another thing to show us that IoT is a can of worms. Yes, the technology is very helpful, but from security perspective, are we ready for it yet? Why not make existing CCTV cameras and nanny monitors more secure before having IoT?

I'd read somewhere that the workings of our brains are just too complex for us to understand, or rather, we are just too good to understand it thoroughly to "unlock the powers".

You see, if the brain was simple enough for us to understand its workings, we would not be even capable of understanding the basics of the nervous system functioning (we would have been just too dumb with such simple brains!), and therein lies this irony - We will never be able to fully understand our own brains, because that very impossibility has given us the ability to understand almost everything else in this universe.

Weird! Don't the Verizon guys do an ID verification that the person requesting the new phone is really who he claims he is?

k. But in boogie2988 case, did the hacker got access to his actual cell phone or just cell number? That's not clear.

Here are more details about that[1]. I'm still surprised how they could have gained access to his Youtube and Twitter just by using his phone number.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/boogie2988/comments/4psg4x/i_was_ha...

BBC News:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37618618

Does this have anything to do with BREXIT?

Is there a way to avoid the data collection by changing the hosts file? What if I made microsoft.com point to localhost or 127.0.0.1?

Will the telemetry stop then?

If thinking about a programming question, just landed me on a StackOverflow page, even that would be miles ahead of Google search's offering!

I think Google and Facebook will face the same enemy that Microsoft faced back in the 1990s - the nameless and faceless, Open Source!

Maybe, if FOSS can build a self-syncing co-operating network spanning multiple nodes across the globe, they can solve the infrastructure/data-storage problem (we already have two precedents here, namely Bitcoin and Bittorrent networks).

Finally, if FOSS can also convince a good proportion of masses to crowdsource their efforts, they would have solved the data acquisition problem too!

But isn't that "breaking of local law" just a technicality? Its not like they are actually shooting anyone, they are just passing through an airport.

An anecdote tangential to the main topic: Its well known that not all states in the USA have the same gun control laws. For instance, in New York, a gun is banned in the hands of civilians.

Now suppose, you are traveling from city A to B with a flight change in New York, and suppose you are carrying arms (duly registered) and you checked out your luggage at New York to catch the next flight, then you are effectively breaking the NYC law for those few moments!

In fact, I've heard that a lot of NYC cops are just hovering around that luggage checkout counter to catch and harass as many innocent passengers as possible!

> Or is it not a matter of sheer numbers, but who gets killed?

In the UK, it was the Dunblane incident that triggered this (you can google it). In the 1990s, some madman with gun just strode inside a high-school at Dunblane in Scotland and started indiscriminate firing. Many teachers and students were killed and after this event, the UK government just outlawed the guns in the hands of civilians.

Maybe, in USA such an extreme event hasn't happened yet, so they have not banned guns yet.

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Corrected period.

Just curious, why is a latest newpaper headline part of a warrant canary?

> was there some technical aspects to YouTube that Google couldn't or didn't want to build themselves?

Google had very much the power of building a YouTube-like community themselves, but buying out a competitor is a short-cut since it has the positive side-effect of removing that competition in our business. After buying YouTube, Google didn't have to waste time in building a community around a new product or "converting" the YouTube masses to theirs.

This short-cut way of acquisition is nowadays preferred by large companies rather than risk everything by doing innovation and "real" competition.

Are you trying to imply that Youtube is a monopoly? Aren't there others like vimeo, etc.? Besides, there is nothing from technology perspective to make it a monopoly. All you need is a server rack and a bunch of web developers who can build such a site, right?

Did you try complaining to ICANN about it via any means? An alternative is to throw a DMCA on them through Google, that's much faster (though its intended use is reporting of copyright violations, not sure how it'll work for reporting of squatting of domain names).

> if you ask them for an A record for news.ycombinator.com, they give you the NS records for com.

Why does it have to go to the .com registry? Why can't the NS servers of the registrar (GoDaddy/Namecheap/etc.) themselves provide that resolution (ycombinator.com == xx.xx.xx.xx IP) ? After all the registrars are assigned for that specific purpose, aren't they?

Looks like a centralized bureaucracy to me if each request has to go to the root com/org/net DNS servers.

Too bad, the owner of Nissan Computers had to go through a lot of hardships[1], just because his family name happened to be the same as that of a crony capitalist.

Such stories make me sad, especially since there are extremely few who could empathize with those who suffered and even understand the problem faced by them. I really hope there are people in the US who would support Mr. Uzi Nissan.

[1]: http://www.nissan.com/Lawsuit/The_Story.php

There should be an easy way through which you can complain against the squatters online. Maybe Google should act as a mediator here as they can blacklist any domain from their searches and thus hold about as much power as the registrars/ICANN.

In any case, what happened afterwards? Did you get back your domain or is it still being squatted?

You are absolutely correct. The ones that get the most worth and respect are actually the middlemen who are good communicators between the "geeky" types and the zero knowledge "corporate" types. Whether the middlemen deserve it or not, I don't know but such are the things in the real world.

In an IT company, for instance, you will always find the project managers and even supervisors getting all the glory and respect whereas the programmers and architects are shunned on the side.

> Congratulations. I hope Samsung nurtures the technical excellence at Joyent.

I'm sure they will. They are a top contributor to open source:

http://linuxcontrib-inn.rhcloud.com/

Yes. I'm using exactly jsPlumb to create the relationship links between the table! The only slight issue I've encountered till now is that the joining points are slightly moved to the left whilst the table is being moved, which creates a slightly ugly user experience!

Your only issue would be perhaps screen real estate! Since this is a pure JavaScript plus jQuery app and doesn't have any heavy framework like Angularjs, performance shouldn't be a problem. Having said that, there are a few UI issues that needs taken care of and I'm working on those bugs.

Nice tool badgeek! You've given me some nice ideas for displaying the tables on canvas. I like the fact that you've given "add column" button on the tables itself instead of opening a separate edit view.

Thank You! Yes, I've been struggling with the jsPlumb library to convert that to rectangular curves, but its on the list!

Thanks for your views, I'm the author of the linked VA tool. One of the primary aspects of this tool besides diagramming is to automate code generation. Presently, it exports the diagram to SQLAlchemy classes and raw mysql format. The idea is that once you design the tables in your head, you should be able to seamlessly translate it to an actual database format like mysql, pgsql, etc. and don't have to waste much time on that!

As for "schema-less" diagramming tools, I think your best bet will be a mind-map. There are many mind-mapping software available including GPL ones like Freemind. What it does is take a central idea and create branches from that root. For example, Database will split into Relational/Non-relational branch. Relational will split into mysq/pgsql and non-relational will split into mongodb/couchdb, etc. To the best of my knowledge, this is how non-relational databases like mongodb work document inside a document inside a document, right?

> 2008/2009 was only partly insane because of tech,

Its easy to provide all kinds of justification in hindsight or "after the crash". If you were a "happy investor" sitting on top of January 2008 crash, I bet the last thing in your mind will be "someone is insane". Its only because the crash happened just after that and so now you have the liberty to say "INSANE TIME".

Its the same economic cycle happening right now. I don't know when the DOW/NASDAQ is going to crash and how many points, but I do know that almost no one can anticipate it right on top of the price chart, and say "Hey look, this move will now cause an economic recession". It always happens after the fact!

> You have to leave code behind at a certain point and spend your time on people/financial/planning issues

As an exceptional case, you can get into a large tech company like Google/Microsoft and thus enjoy a higher position while still being able to do what you enjoy (coding and technical stuff).

I was faced with this same dilemma when I quit my day job in a large multinational company and started freelance programming. As you said, there are career roadblocks in most companies when you are more technically inclined than managerial. Besides, there is no large employer like Google/Microsoft/etc. in my country, so freelancing is my only option.