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Comment Re:Do not want (Score 1) 198

You seem to think that DNS names being exposed in TLS negotiation was an accident.

The purpose of DNS names being exposed by the SNI extension is to facilitate name-based virtual hosting. It is not to expose additional information to 3rd parties sniffing the line; that part was clearly an accident.
It can be fixed, and I see no reason why it won't be.

Other than from just about every firewall vendor... People like Cisco, Fortinet, PaloAlto, Checkpoint, etc and all the people who use their kit and who are currently widely "abusing" it.

There are legitimate reasons for some people being able to selectively block web traffic

If someone's abusing SNI information for censorship purposes, then that's yet another reason this needs to be fixed. No a 3rd party sniffing to identify names and tampering with or "blocking" SSL traffic is not legitimate, for any reason.

Ahhh, So it's just you that decides what is/isn't justified in common Internet implementations now. I'd always found the fact that there wasn't a central reference for all that to be sooo awkward. Good to know that you're on the job then.

Comment Re:Arab? (Score 1) 190

You gotta just love people ignorant enough to think that knowledge of their culture means that they can generalise to other cultures. It's really comical.

Here's an example: How many continents are there? Seven right? Same thing in Spanish, right? Uhhh no. Google "cuántos continentes hay en el mundo" & you'll discover that Spanish speaking cultures generally only count five with no antarctica & Americas being one.

Your assumption that a Spanish speaking "Central" American or "South" American would distinguish himself from a "North" American is bunk. You, the English speaking person from the US would. They don't. Your idea that I am trying to introduce ambiguity into "American" is bunk. All along I've been saying that for most "Americans" there is no difference. I do not care that this may hurt your pride in being "the only real Americans".

Comment Re:Arab? (Score 1) 190

Who is arrogant? The more numerous Spanish speakers in the rest of the Americas ? Or the USA for assuming that American refers uniquely to those in the US. Apparently you consider it pedantry to point out that that people holding your opinion are in the minority.

Comment Re:Arab? (Score 1) 190

Spent any significant time outside The US? I've been taken to task by people from other countries in the Americas for the USA's use of American to mean only US citizens. Travel some more and you'll see my point. You'll also use fewer US specific references like Miss SC.

Comment Re:Anecdotal evidence (Score 1) 241

Nope, the problem is that Windows does not have task aggregation like Grand Central Dispatch so the CPU is constantly getting interrupted & never actually spends much time in low power states. Read the article I linked. Driver non-optimisation is not the problem, less OS optimisation in Windows is.

Comment Re:Anecdotal evidence (Score 1) 241

Read the article that I linked. Grand Central Dispatch & other optimisations that Apple has brought to OS X are what makes the difference in Battery life. It goes far beyond mere driver optimisation. The entire GUI stack has changed & you cannot bring equivalent optimisations to other OSs by "optimising the drivers".

The level of ignorance ("it's a driver optimisation problem) & bias ("thats why I've abandoned Apple") you display are unfortunately all too common.

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