The fulcrum of backlash against the device in an almost uniform, vehement, and studied way exposing Google's complete disdain for respect of privacy might have something to do with it as well. Pulling back the Oz Curtain and exposing that Google's business model is the complete ownership of your personal information for their profit might be just too much advance with just one product.

So are 1957 Porsches. Some designs are timeless, but entropy will get them all but a few samples preserved for posterity.

There's also a HUGE ecosystem, very profitable, that after two dozen years, actually works-- expensive as it is. Oracle DBAs and SQL coders aren't the sort of person that's after the latest "edgy" new db scheme.

I would venture that most of them don't like JSON, have no clue for hadoop, and are the online/never-fail sorts. They're not going to use REST against an AJAX app, are clueless about puppet, and believe in middleware. Not gonna get them to fix what they perceive as not-broken.

There is a small amount of wisdom in this philosophy, but like COBOL, mainframes/minis, and AS/400s/AIX, time will eventually pass them by, slowly, but unerringly, IMHO.

And if either the banks, the retailers, and/or any member of the supply chain gave up a single point in transactions TO UPGRADE THEIR SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE and SELF POLICE, then government interaction would be unnecessary and consumer safety would soar.

It's always someone else's problem, and someone else needs to eat the costs. So crappy POS, putting your fingers in your ears when IT warns you that your systems are about to explode, be breached, or become a PR nightmare, are all OK because it's the other guy's problem, never your own.

Fuck that.

IPv6 rarely uses NAT, so it's almost like using a serial number on your machine's address. So, no, no help.

Most of it, to the last mile or so, is in the ground in the US.... there's tons of dark fiber waiting to be lit up.

Fuck corporations turning a profit. This is a utility, not a bunch of regional monopolies masquerading as public beneficiaries. Governments and PEOPLE get easement and right-of-way income. There are lots of models as to how this can be done.

Pioneers like Loma Linda, CA, DIgital Cities, and others show how to make it work financially, and no, not some sort of neo-socialist/commie model.

Should there be those profiting? Sure. No argument. The current model of monopoly by legislative bribery just has to end, however.

It ought to be, nodes are nodes, but we're talking about the difference between telco legacy interconnect and the dawn of Internet "hotels" which were aggregations near NAP points and convenient telco interconnects. This is what was the problem: ATM, SONET, and other L1/L2 problems. This allowed the concept that some junction points were more important than others, and that an edge device could be poorly provisioned, while big junction points could have nearby CDNs, huge hosts, and so forth.

Add in isometric/QOS protocols, and the lines start to blur further, as we allow multimedia to get priority over non isochronous protocols. We've created protocol priority in the name of not screwing up audio and video feeds. Today, AV feeds permeate and mostly dominate the wires statistically by content type.

Where is the line drawn between QoS protocols, time-sensitive multimedia delivery, brute force bandwidth, and everyone owning the equiv of a Cisco core router?

It's called fiber. FTTH, FTTbedroom, and we need to promulgate fiber transports-- symmetrical ones-- as home edge standards, just like a NEMA 120vac/60hz outlet (or the 220v/ 50-60hz int'l equiv). This at least lifts all boats.

Anyone can give consent; responsibility says that you make an uncivil posit by asking animals/children to consent to have sex with you. Bigotry? Ask a professional.

None of these are arbitrary. Anyone can be seduced. As a higher species, we bear civil responsibility. Screwing animals isn't responsible.

Screwing children is the same answer. They have insufficient nexus and context to say "yes". They're children.

Consent isn't legal fiction, it's civility. All else is rape.

You're conflating pre-disposed behavior with an action, and you forgot: consent. Animals can't give consent. Children can't give consent (and shouldn't need to be asked). Siblings are usually underage during incestuous phases and they can't give consent because they're children.

Being attracted (or not) to any gender can work, but the Judeo/Christian/Islamic ways (subject to some notable exception) argues against non-heterosexual relationships, except asexuality-- which oddly is lauded. Homosexuality doesn't produce offsprings, except in rare cases not worth mentioning (not talking about bisexuality).

Consensual sex is key. We go successfully from "consensual".

Redacting sounds good on the surface, but piecing the info back together again is somewhat trivial. Sharpies don't do a great job when you can blow something up to ridiculous multiples, then use pattern recognition to infer the data hidden behind the redaction.

It's better to have Norton AV recognize this as a virus. That'll get rid of it. Yeah. Or give it to an IRS exec in the form of an email.....

And amazingly, no one at NASA will be sacked as a result of this.

There is something negative in exchange for the average tax payer, called: we prop up the difference because the bills still need to get paid. Teachers, public safety, roads, etc etc.

This is yet another example of how that thick, bought-and-paid-for tax code benefits those who bought and paid for it. That means most of us that thought that government fairness wasn't an oxymoron get another kick in the slats.

Remember to vote. And if in Chicagoland, often and frequently.

Think about it. They already know who you are unless you anonymously purchased a "drop" phone. With either GPS or LBS, they know where the phone's been. It was with you, likely. You fell asleep where you live, so that's your address, resolved to about 1m most places. There's a MAC address on the phone, very difficult to spoof. There are two more IDs on the phone, one as your EIMI or equiv, and other that's buried in a firmware-reachable mem location.

You drove by the sniffing cell towers on your way into the airport. If WiFi was on, it sniffed that, too. Up against a database linking users to cell, another easily done link says: whoa there, Chuck, you're on the no-way-Jose list. We're going to ask you to step into our office after we get the nekkid picture of you.

Yeah, I'm giving them too much credit, partly in humor. Such a scenario isn't outside of the realm of real possibility. Why use so much technology when you can mark ropes? Next they'll be weighing passengers with rugs made out of load cells so they can balance plane weights before you ever get to the bankrupt pizza maker on the next concourse.

Um, the line goes to here, so about X. If the line goes to there, ummm, y.

They just wanna check your MAC address to ensure you're not on the NoFly list so that they can handle your incarceration discretely.