robalfonso

I think you have a point, however, those issues all exist regardless of the router/modem. If that is all you changed and the speeds dramatically changed, then it bears further investigation. I don't think the post is saying this is definitive. Merely that it bears further investigation. Where there is smoke there is fire.

For a long time people could spend their whole career at one company - now not so much, do you think we may be swinging back to that?

From a business perspective its better to keep your high performers as long as you can - pay them what they are worth since someone else will any ways.

Not much discussion of the anonymous survey - are these "High Performing Employees" Self selecting?

My gut says quiet spaces are a boon to productivity - but why not prove it instead of a research methodology with holes so large I could drive a truck through them.

My business does this as a part of its offerings. The deals are usually all custom as they are potentially very valuable domains involved.

Most of the time though they have a buyout component after a certain period of time and they sometimes allow part of the lease payments to apply to the final payment price.

It really just depends. More leverage for the terms on do.com vs say "Ilovewebsiteswithorangeheaders.com"

Me too! Love grocery, tougher with kids. I find the free cookie at the bakery seems to be a good incentive for them to behave, ymmv

Just curious - do you like cooking? I find people who don't like going to the grocery also don't enjoy cooking. Not a 100% correlation but my gut says a strong one.

I think its entirely reasonable that if the company said ahead of time, we are covering cost X, anything outside cost X is on the employee. (thats obviously not what happened)

Who wants to work for someone that cheap?

Yes, but you might not understand me. I meant they are assuming they are doing the evaluating on behalf of their customers. I'm the customer and I've got to do the evaluating , but I might not understand the potential but telling me there is almost no issue doesn't help me do that.

You have to evaluate the type of account disclosure that was possible against your own use cases.

My company bills 1m a day through our online site, if my logins to our domain registrar were exposed then yes. .00001 is worth it, in the case someone would gain access and change our dns or do something else nefarious.

Like wise if my login to this site was disclosed, I can live with cleaning that up should it get out.

What shouldn't happen is the companies who were affected or the company who caused this (cloudflare) to say "no big deal"

At the very least they should say if you potentially used a serious service during this time and that service was using cloudflare then you might consider changing for reasons X,Y,Z.

Another Cloudflare customer also said basically this is much ado about nothing, but prefaced their comment by saying "We take security seriously".

Whats offensive here is if you take security seriously, then if there is a .01% chance of a disclosure - you tell people to change thier passwords,tokens,etc. That is taking security seriously.

First, thats the way it is - so knowing that you need to keep the information up to date.

Regarding Why - ICANN runs on a multi stakeholder model, meaning governments and legal entities get a seat at the table too.

They have an interest in knowing who is behind a domain - its that simple.

Also whois privacy is not the protection everyone thinks it is. Its a lock on a door. It keeps casual looks out - spammers, scammers, etc.

If a government or police organization wants that information and they have legitimate need to do so, they will get it.

I'm in the registrar space. A few observations.

The process overall is not great, but ICANN's process didn't fail this customer. The customer needs to keep contact information up to date. If you own 100+ domains you should be very familiar and have your own process for managing this.

Its been this way since 2013.

The process to shut down a site is quite thorough in that many attempts at contact need to be made.

I'm a little surprised a phone call wasn't generated. By the time we've emailed you 3 times - we are making a phone call - we don't want to shut down a site if its at all avoidable.

This "24-48" hours stuff is nonsense - The suspension/un-suspension of a domain can be done almost immediately.

It remains to be seen but NameCheaps only potential issue here is whether they failed to renew the WHOIS privacy service.

awk and sed are fantastic for command line processing of text. You really should take a look at them. All that said, if you don't find yourself trying to do something in bash and thinking "there must be an easier way" then you're problem sets may just not need them.

Backups every 24 hours? I would have expected hourly. This is a experience thing, when doing things with data (like wiping db directories) I mv a directory rather than rm it. If you are working on a problem for hours you are likely to make a simple critical mistake like that which then creates a whole new problem to solve.

Best of luck though and kudos for the transparency!

This is the problem that remains unsolved for many businesses.

Good engineers don't necessarily make good managers. So they hire MBA's to be managers, but a MBA doesn't correlate to being a good manager either, in fact there is a chance that they may be a worse manager - because they don't do anything in particular (related to products that is).

So really when it comes down to it, hire managers who are good at managing people/processes and have some kind of real experience in your product or service. And in lieu of that hire a good manager who is smart and can pick it up, way down the line is hire a manager by their degree - if thats all they have going for them you are probably in for a painful ride.

Also a MBA is great if you pair it with a engineering background, but also be concerned about executives (CEO,etc) that can't sniff out people in their organization who would be a good manager regardless of background - some people have knack for management, like any other natural talent.

I keep telling people the Mcdonalds of the future isn't going to be the same large box with robots running around - it will be much smaller, because robots can use every inch of the kitchen area unlike humans.

I think this also has some interesting implications for real estate long term - if every mcdonalds needs 50% of the space they currently occupy over time that real estate will be put back in the market, multiply that by every organization doing that and it has some follow in implications that I can't forsee but find very interesting.

You clearly don't have site to site mass materializers (ie star trek transporters) then you could just move it to your location when you need it. Get on the ball!

I always find this kind of thinking to be counter productive - we are all going to be older. The people hiring, the people recruiting, they will all find the same bias working against them in the future - why not do future you a favor and not perpetuate the bias.

Slightly related - had a AWS account, the account tied to it was for business use only - at some point I had credits/balance on the business account and someone gained access to the regular amazon account and bought some digital goods, so I notified amazon. They locked the account AND locked me out of AWS. This particular account was not important, but it took weeks to get access back.

I finally had to call my rep at AWS and said - you are putting your business with us in jeopardy (On other accounts that we spend significant money on) because its taken me so long to resolve this. Got it unlocked in 24 hours, but the whole thing left a sour taste in my mouth.

I suspect Google WILL have this issue as well, it has the potential to be a huge issue for your business.

Alternatively never had this issue when I've COLO'd - food for thought.

Legal/Govermental/Regulatory issues, someone has to deal with it. No single organization is going to deal with every country and their various legal issues. Registries and Registrars help abstract a lot of that (ICANN definitely doesn't want to deal with it). I don't disagree with the ease of storing a few million records or more. That is not the real overhead and is in reality only a fraction of whats involved.

I think this is just terribly in bad taste (I suspect under the hood there is no "Yes" if statement). I was also surprised that the "how can I help" link takes you to a page to help elect democrats. I don't know what I expected but it wasn't that.

I've always been intrigued with the idea that it could come down to a president from one party and a vp from another!

At the end of the day I hold hope he'll approach this like a business. He'll hire the best he can find, fire the incompetent (of which government has many) and generally clean things up. What remains to be seen is how much the politics of any one group may stop that type of thing.

I won't get too much into the various possibilities, but simply put, if neither candidate has 270 electoral votes, then the election is decided by congress, the incoming one. So really there is no chance its not trump.

They did say on average it would be less than a comparable gas fill up, so not exact but an indication it would be a fair price.

The project is built from drupal, the same CMS is used for whitehouse.gov. It seems drupal is seeing a pretty good up take for these types of websites.

Actually as of 2013 - ICANN required registrars on the latest contract to standardize whois output, further next year a new protocol RDAP will be available that will add to this. So I'd say their are much more workable solutions here and more coming soon.

Incidentally I find that to be a smart business move for them as well. I mean if you behave like a gTLD you integrate much faster than say .es where you have all kinds of offset rules you must apply to their expiration or .nl who give you a one day window to renew!

I've got a friend who does wifi installs in stadiums and other large event spaces. This kind of install is the very definition of hostile networking environment. It cannot be easy to use lots of wifi devices with so many radios all blasting signals in a giant bowl.

Whats more egregious is the short time span given to fix things. Either the NFL needs to open that up, or have a whole ops team who does it for the teams and has a SLA related to making it work.

If I'm dealing with the pressure to perform that goes with running a NFL team, networking and communications infrastructure is about the last thing I'd want to worry about. Belichick is being quite restrained if he's only throwing the tablets. I'd probably crack it over my knee!

Can I just say, anyone who uses the fee extension over crazy price api's or downloaded lists is my friend!